MagaSwaga Potent Notables

Notable: Pompeo: Wheels up for Europe.

>>6632364

>>6632206

"Why is Sec of State there?"

Q

https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1134231280101535745

Notable: Military Judge frees SpecialOP Chief charged in alleged murder of an islamic prisoner. Prosecuters pulled shenanigans - spied on defense emails and shit

BREAKING: Military judge Capt. Aaron Rugh has freed Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher as a remedy for interference by prosecutors who allegedly used tracking software to monitor defense lawyers’ emails

www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/30/edward-gallagher-navy-seal-charged-murder-released/

twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1134262247696490496

Notable: >>6632262 Anomaly occurs during Northrop Grumman's rocket test.

SpaceNews

ANOMALY OCCURS DURING OMEGA FIRST STAGE STATIC FIRE TEST

PROMONTORY, Utah — During the first static fire test for Northrop Grumman’s OmegA first stage, debris could be seen coming away from the nozzle section of the booster.

This test, which occurred at 1:05 p.m. MDT (19:05 GMT) May 30, 2019, at Northrop Grumman’s Utah facility, was the first full-scale static fire test for the rocket, which the company plans to qualify by 2021 to launch national security payloads into orbit for the U.S. military

The booster fired for about two minutes before burning out. According to Northrop Grumman, the test was successful other than the noted observation with the aft exit cone of the nozzle near the end of its burn time.

“This is why you test,” said Kent Rominger, Northrop Grumman’s vice president of Strategic Programs. “It identified something that we find out when we have 700 channels of data on the motor. We will go dig into this data and see what it tells us.”

Rominger did not speculate as to the cause of the anomaly, stressing that engineers would need to go over the data to get a better idea of what may have happened.

According to Northrop Grumman, the OmegA rocket is built on a multitude of “flight proven” technologies ranging from the RL10 engine to hardware the size of the Space Shuttle and Space Launch System solid rocket booster segments.

However, Rominger did say that the nozzle design between OmegA and SLS had “distinct” differences.

Ultimately, the initial flight configuration of OmegA is expected to include a Castor 600 solid rocket motor, a Castor 300 second stage and a dual-engine cryogenic third stage.

For this test, the Castor 600 first stage utilized the same equipment that was used for the Space Shuttle and Space Launch System solid rocket boosters. As such, the much-shorter booster required several gap segments to span the whole test mount.

Overall, the Castor 600 is 12 feet (3.7 meters) wide and 80 feet (24.4 meters) long. It consists of two common booster segments that were designed specifically for the OmegA program, but with “roots in the strong heritage of Northrop Grumman’s large-diameter solid rocket booster and composite technology.”

The common booster segments comprise the first and second stages with each made of a carbon fiber casing.

Once ignited, the Castor 600, which contains more than 600,000 pounds (273,000 kilograms) of propellant, produced more than 2 million pounds (8,900 kilonewtons) of force. According to Northrop Grumman, the next steps will be to disassemble the stage and begin dissecting and inspecting the casing and the data from the more than 700 instrumentation channels.

More here spaceanons interested..

https://www.spaceflightinsider.com/organizations/northrop-grumman/anomaly-occurs-during-omega-first-stage-static-fire-test/

Notable: Cardinal evacuated in Panama due to lynching threats.

Report: Cardinal Maradiaga Evacuated From Honduran Plane Due to Protesters & Threat of “Lynching”

https://onepeterfive.com/report-cardinal-maradiaga-evacuated-from-honduran-plane-due-to-protesters-threat-of-lynching/

Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, the head of the pope’s council of cardinal advisers, has, according to a tweet from National Catholic Register Rome correspondent Edward Pentin, been evacuated from a plane bound for Panama today due to political protests at Honduras airport.

According to Pentin’s sources, Maradiaga was secreted away out the back of the airport because of a belief that the crowd posed a “danger of lynching.”

“His support for govt’s bad policies means he’s seen as paid govt official,” Pentin said.

In a video Pentin later tweeted, a crowd of people, appearing to number in the hundreds, can be seen walking along the runways of the airport.

This news comes as the pope just defended Maradiaga from charges of corruption in his Interview with Mexican journalist Valentina Alazraki for Vatican News.

MOAR at link.

Notable: Kek thanks new baker.

>>6632191

Thanks baker.

Notable: Interesting Q crumb: 5%…

Notable: JP Morgan pays $5 million to settle claims it discriminates against new dads.

JP Morgan Pays $5 Million To Settle Claims It Discriminates Against New Dads

Ever since the #MeToo movement erupted 18 months ago, considerable attention has been paid to the prevalence of sex discrimination in the workplace, as women complained about being underpaid, overlooked for promotion or subjected to rude, sexist comments by bosses and coworkers just because they tried to 'have it all' by juggling a family and a demanding career.

On Wall Street, stories like these have become so commonplace that details can muddle to the point of becoming indistinguishable.

But it's not every day you read a story about a young father winning a major settlement in a parental-leave discrimination claim.

On Thursday, JP Morgan tentatively agreed to pay $5 million to settle a class action lawsuit claiming the bank discriminated against fathers by denying them adequate family leave.

The lawsuit stemmed from a complaint filed two years ago by Derek Rotondo, an employee in the bank's Colombus, Ohio, office. It was elevated to class action status after the ACLU got involved.

Now, the bank is going to distribute the money to fathers who were denied the bank's four-month leave for 'primary' caregivers and, as part of the settlement, it has agreed to ensure that its parental leave policies are administered in a gender-neutral way.

According to the New York Times, if the settlement is approved by a judge, it will be the first - and largest - successful class-action suit brought by employees alleging discrimination in a company's family leave policies.

Here's some background on Rotondo's case, courtesy of WSJ:

Derek Rotondo, who works as a fraud investigator in the bank’s office in Columbus, Ohio, filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission arguing that, by designating biological mothers as the default primary caregivers, J.P. Morgan’s parental leave policy violates federal and state laws that prohibit employers from discriminating against employees based on gender or gender-based stereotypes. He was joined in his charge by the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Ohio.

After his son was born in 2017, Rotondo filed to take the full four months of leave. But the bank denied him on the basis that Rotondo's wife was a special-education teacher who was on summer break at the time of the birth. When it denied his application, the bank told Rotondo that it considered birth mothers primary caregivers by default.

Shortly before Rotondo filed his complaint, the bank expanded its leave policy for primary caregivers from 12 weeks to 16 weeks. Earlier this year, JPM CEO Jamie Dimon said the bank had expanded its leave for secondary caregivers from two weeks to six weeks.

But Rotondo's lawyers say this distinction is a problem, because it reinforces stereotypes that "our society has artificially set."

It'd be easier and simpler if corporations offered the same amount of leave to both parents, instead of relying on distinctions like "primary" and "non-primary" caregivers.

"You can’t achieve full equality for women in the workplace unless and until men are taking on a more active role at home," said Galen Sherwin, one of Mr. Rotondo’s lawyers and an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Women’s Rights Project.

In the US, only 15% of private-sector workers have access to paid family leave, mostly in highly paid white collar professions. Socialists like Bernie Sanders' frequently complain that America is one of the only developed countries that doesn't require leave.

Ultimately, Rotondo was granted the full leave.

While this ruling is undoubtedly a step forward in the fight toward recognizing father's equal standing in the family realm, we can think of at least one other venue that is badly in need of reform.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-30/jp-morgan-pays-5-million-settle-claims-it-discriminates-against-new-dads

Notable: Report: Over 600,000 migrants entered the UK in 2018.

Notes/News

Report: Over 600,000 migrants entered the UK in 2018

Official reports have revealed that in 2018, more than 600,000 migrants arrived in the United Kingdom in 2018;

That's twice as many as the number of people who migrated to France and nearly the entire bloody population of Northern Ireland’s capital city Belfast

The data, which was released via the Office for National Statistics (ONS), stated that over a quarter of a million more people arrived with the intention of staying at least a year then left in 2018.

All in all – over the past 12 months – 602,000 newcomers migrated to the UK, while 343,000 emigrated – demonstrating a clearly significant trend toward overall net migration, amounting to 258,000 individuals.

Additionally, the British government granted asylum, resettlement, or alternative forms of leave to 17,304 people in the year ending in March 2019 – marking an increase from the previous year.

The Office for National Statistics reported that “Since 2016, the pattern of migration to the UK for work has been changing. Long-term immigration to the UK for work has fallen, mainly driven by the decline in EU arrivals. Despite this, 99,000 EU citizens still came to the UK long-term to work in 2018, a level similar to 2012. We are also seeing the number of skilled work visas for non-EU citizens increasing, although overall non-EU work-related immigration has remained broadly stable.”

Regarding the ONS report, the vice chairmen of the group Migration Watch UK, Alp Mehmet, had this to say: “Overall net migration remains at more than a quarter of a million — still unacceptably high. And despite the uncertainty during 2018, nearly 75,000 more EU arrived than left, as well as 232,000 non-EU nationals.”

“The clear message in these figures for the next Prime Minister is that they must make it a priority to deliver on the government’s pledge to reduce immigration levels by a lot, in line with the public’s wishes,” he added.

Last Christmas, the Home Office released a report which outlined their plans concerning migration in the year ahead which involved more work visas. At the time, Migration Watch UK declared “there are, literally, no measures to reduce net migration, now running at 270,000 a year”, while adding that it “seems certain that these proposals would allow a massive increase in the number of people entering the UK for work, and [it is]inevitable that many of these would find ways to stay long-term. This is not control. It is an illusion of control.”

Interestingly enough, this comes despite the Conservative party – whose manifesto pledges that in three successive elections that overall net migration would be decreased from ‘from the hundreds of thousands to the tens of thousands’ – has been in power for nearly a decade now.

In a speech given in 2010 by then Home Secretary Theresa May, she denounced the previous Labor government’s track record, saying “over Labor’s time in office net migration totaled more than 2.2 million people – more than double the population of Birmingham. We can’t go on like this.”

But the Conservative government never took any action whatsoever to decrease the number of migrants coming into the country, and as a result, hundreds of thousands of people have flowed into Britain in each successive year.

In what has become an infamous article in the Evening Standard, former Conservative Chancellor George Osborne wrote that the leadership in the Conservative party never actually had any intention of staying true to their manifesto’s pledge to reduce net migration to tens of thousands.

“None of [the Cabinet’s]senior members support the pledge in private and all would be glad to see the back of something that has caused the Conservative Party such public grief,” Mr. Osborne revealed.

When will this migration madness end?

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/05/report-over-600000-migrants-entered-the-uk-in-2018/

Notable: NATO to adopt first space policy in June.

Notables/news

NATO to Adopt First Space Policy in June - Stoltenberg

Everything 'space' continues to gain momentum and importance it seems almost daily.

Now the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will adopt its first space policy in June, the alliance's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters on Tuesday.

"We are now also working on an overarching space policy, another first for NATO. And next month, I expect NATO defence ministers will adopt our new space policy," Stoltenberg said after the meeting of national security advisers in Brussels.

Stoltenberg also said NATO needs to strengthen the resilience of its telecommunication networks, 5G, undersea cables and space assets.

"We will revise NATO guidelines for the protection of our critical infrastructure, including telecommunication infrastructure," he added.

In February, US President Donald Trump signed a directive to establish the Space Force. Initially, it will be part of the Air Force, much like the Marine Corps is part of the Navy. However, plans call for the Space Force to eventually graduate as an independent unit within the US military.

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NATO_to_Adopt_First_Space_Policy_in_June___Stoltenberg_999.html

Notable: >>6632271 Suspicious small plane crashed as it was approached by two Florida Air National Guard F-15 fighter jets.

>>6631801

It's not my fault this site sucks donkeys. I tried to post the article sauce.

FUCKTARDS, even the article NAME is in the damn video.

But here, let me hold your fucking hand. Fucking retard. What's left on here fuckin 90 year old people magazine readers?

Notable: WH starts USMCA approval process.

White House starts clock on approval for new NAFTA

The White House on Thursday formally notified Congress that it is starting the approval process for President Trump’s revision of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), triggering a showdown with congressional Democrats over Trump’s signature trade agreement.

The decision is designed to put pressure on House Democrats, who have objections to the revised trade pact and have reportedly warned the White House not to begin the formal process of submitting it to Congress.

“Canada and Mexico have formally initiated their ratification processes. It is time for the United States to uphold our end of the bargain with our key allies and neighbors and do the same,” U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer wrote in a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)

The White House sent a draft statement of administrative action to lawmakers, a necessary step for the new NAFTA to be considered on a fast-track basis.

That kicks off a minimum 30-day period before the implementing legislation would be sent to Congress, though it is possible the White House could further delay introducing the legislation to provide more time for negotiations.

Filing the report with Congress, however, was intended to send a signal to Democrats that the White House will not accept a long delay.

“Today’s action is all about moving forward on an agreement that we know is a win,” Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa.

Pence reiterated the administration wants Congress to pass the agreement by “this summer.”

The move inflamed tensions with Democrats who say they need more time to review the agreement and consider changes. Pelosi said the decision “is not a positive step” and “indicates a lack of knowledge on the part of the administration on the policy and process to pass a trade agreement.”

“We have been on a path to yes, but it must be a path that leads to an agreement that delivers positive results for American workers and farmers,” she said in a statement.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/446228-white-house-to-start-clock-on-approval-for-new-nafta-reports

Notable: Terror attack in Iraq's Kirkuk.

Six Explosions Rip Through Iraq's Oil City Of Kirkuk In Terror Attack

A series of explosions have rocked the oil-rich northern Iraq city of Kirkuk, which lies 150 miles north of Baghdad in a disputed region which Iraqi Kurdistan leaders have jostled with the national government for control over.

On Thursday evening half a dozen or more explosions ripped across a central avenue, leaving at least five people dead and a dozen or more wounded, according to unconfirmed early conflicting reports. Some reports have cited as many as six or more among the dead what may have numbered eight total explosions.

Dramatic footage captured the moment of one of the bombs being detonated on a busy street during the heart of the evening in an area known as a popular commercial hub filled with cafes and malls.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-30/over-6-explosions-rip-through-iraqs-oil-city-kirkuk-terror-attack

Notable: Bongino Tweets on Mueller.

Good guys” don’t do what Bob Mueller did.

twitter.com/dbongino/status/1134250345549520897

Notable: WH Statement on POTUS enacting Mexico tariffs.

:30 POTUS

:53 White House

Come on Anons

say it with me….

PAIN

To address the emergency at the Southern Border, President Trump announced moments ago that he is invoking his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose a 5% tariff on all goods imported from Mexico.

twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1134246456938979329

Statement from the President Regarding Emergency Measures to Address the Border Crisis

www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-regarding-emergency-measures-address-border-crisis/

twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1134240657621438464

Notable: Russia and Japan in a territory dispute.

Japan and Russia hold 'two-plus-two' meeting, revealing rift over territorial dispute

The foreign and defense ministers of Japan and Russia met Thursday in Tokyo to discuss regional security issues, revealing a deep gap between the two sides over a territorial dispute involving the Russian-held islands off Hokkaido.

After the “two-plus-two” meeting, Foreign Minister Taro Kono told reporters the Japanese side raised concerns over a recent missile-firing exercise and the deployment of a jet fighter unit to the islands, which Tokyo calls the Northern Territories.

Such military buildup on the islands is “unacceptable” given Japan’s claim of sovereignty over the territory, Kono said during a joint press announcement.

In response, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that the military activities were conducted on territory under “Russian sovereignty” and adheres to international law. Moscow calls the disputed islands the Southern Kurils.

“We reconfirmed our position that the activities were conducted by the Russian military on our territory,” Lavrov said through a Japanese-language translator.

On Friday Kono and Lavrov will meet again in Tokyo to discuss the territorial issue and lay the groundwork for the next meeting between Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which will take place on the sidelines of the G20 meeting at the end of next month in Osaka.

But the territorial talks between the two top leaders have been deadlocked for months, and no major breakthrough is expected for the Lavrov-Kono meeting this time.

During Thursday’s two-plus-two meeting, the Lavrov expressed concern over Japan’s program to strengthen its “global missile defense” capability, referring to Tokyo’s plan to set up the U.S.-made Aegis Ashore missile defense system in the prefectures of Akita and Yamaguchi.

In response, Japanese Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya argued that Aegis Ashore is a “purely defensive system” and will not pose any threat to Russia or other countries.

Japan has decided to introduce the Aegis Ashore system to defend against North Korean ballistic missiles, but Moscow has argued it could also pose a threat to Russia.

Meanwhile both Kono and Lavrov said the two countries agreed to push for the denuclearization of North Korea.

“Russia’s position on the situation of the Korean Peninsula is very close to that of Japan,” Lavrov said.

The two-plus-two meeting was launched in November 2013 in hopes of building up confidence between the two countries and possibly help promote territorial talks as well. Thursday’s meeting was the fourth following the one held in July last year in Moscow.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/05/30/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-russia-hold-two-plus-two-meeting-revealing-rift-territorial-dispute/

Notable: Chicago Police release hundreds pages of Jussie Smollett documents.

Lots of news so understandable why this wasn't in Notables last bread. Reposted with better formatting - Case file links below

JUST IN: Chicago Police Release Hundreds Pages Of Jussie Smollett Documents

Americans were shocked when it was announced on March 26, that all charges had been dropped in the ‘Empire’ actor Jussie Smollett hate-crime hoax case. During their press conference to discuss the Smollett case, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Police Department Supt. Eddie Johnson openly admitted they were blind-sided by the announcement by the announcement that came from Chicago Prosecutor Kim Foxx’s office.

As is the case in many “blue” cities like Chicago, there was something about the dismissal of this case that didn’t pass the smell test. The suspicions many have about foul play in the Smollett case appear to be well-founded.

Text messages and emails reveal Prosecutor Kim Foxx and Michelle Obama’s former Chief of Staff, Tina Tchen communicating about the Smollett case, and reveal Tchen asking Foxx to intercede on Smollett’s behalf, confirming that the two were working behind the scenes to get Smollett out of the 16 charges. Chicago’s Fox 32 reports – Last week, an Illinois judge cleared the way for records sealed in the “hoax attack” criminal case of “Empire” cast member Jussie Smollett be made public, ruling that the actor has not displayed the “actions of a person seeking to maintain his privacy.”

In his order for the file to be unsealed, Judge Steven Watkins said Smollett’s actions before and after his case was dismissed did not appear to be those of someone seeking to maintain his privacy. Smollett’s lawyers had argued that since the charges were dropped, the actor had “the right to be left alone.”

https://100percentfedup.com/just-in-chicago-police-release-hundreds-pages-of-jussie-smollett-documents/

CASE FILE 1: http://media.fox32chicago.com/media.fox32chicago.com/document_dev/2019/05/30/Smollett-Batch1_7331492_ver1.0.pdf?fbclid=IwAR00peFUKxYitXQAGYCGg2wtmoaWpqKpY7RjPGe8sBJWgEEex9G7JB72-YY

CASE FILE 2:http://media.fox32chicago.com/media.fox32chicago.com/document_dev/2019/05/30/Smollett-Batch2_7331493_ver1.0.pdf?fbclid=IwAR00peFUKxYitXQAGYCGg2wtmoaWpqKpY7RjPGe8sBJWgEEex9G7JB72-YY

CASE FILE 3: http://media.fox32chicago.com/media.fox32chicago.com/document_dev/2019/05/30/smollett-Batch3_7331494_ver1.0.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0DOdXBwOV8DS29bqRin01NzMcBtPjC8lTnN_AP-38BwUmwnVq7Hf9UHWc

Notable: Nice game of chess.

POTUS referring to 'nice game of chess' Wargames (ala Q) quote when he pointed out Meuller's conflict of interest?

Notable: DJT Tweet: "On June 10th, the United States will impose a 5% Tariff on all goods coming into our Country from Mexico, until such time as illegal migrants coming through Mexico, and into our Country, STOP…"

DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1134240653926232064

Notable: Q proof: Misdirection sometimes creates one person to turn on another.

>>6631384

Notable: Prominent Republican district tactician's hard drive used as evidence in upcoming SCOTUS case.

>>6631136

>>6631115

@nytimes

After a prominent Republican strategist died, his hard drives revealed new details on the Trump administration’s census citizenship question

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1134237214513270785

4:16 PM - 30 May 2019

3 dead today

Notable: CNN having cash flow problems.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2019/05/30/takala-cnn-payment/

Notable: (Where's Barry?) Obama meets with soccer star Pele In Brazil

Obama is in Brazil

Pele meets with Obama in Brazil

https://sports.yahoo.com/pele-meets-obama-brazil-221642336–sow.html

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Sao Paulo (AFP) - Pele met with former US president Barack Obama in Sao Paulo Thursday where the pair discussed how "to make the world better," the Brazilian football great said on Twitter.

Weeks after surgery to remove a kidney stone, a healthy-looking Pele smiled and clutched Obama's hand as they posed for a photo, later shared on social media by the three-time World Cup winner.

"Met with President Obama while he was in town. We spoke about how to work together to make the world better," Pele said.

"Happy we are on the same team."

Obama was in Sao Paulo for a digital innovation conference.

Pele, widely considered to be the greatest footballer in history, was admitted to a Paris hospital last month after appearing at a promotional event with France striker Kylian Mbappe.

He spent almost a week in the medical facility before returning to Sao Paulo, where he was admitted to another hospital for the kidney stone procedure.

Pele, who won the World Cup with Brazil in 1958, 1962 and perhaps most memorably in Mexico in 1970 when his swashbuckling team re-defined modern football, has had several health scares in recent years.

Notable: Hillary Clinton, queen of obstruction, demands accountability, after mueller speaks

https://t.co/8W2nOMxwys" target="_blank">https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tom-del-beccaro-hillary-clinton-the-queen-of-obstruction-demands-accountability.amp#click=https://t.co/8W2nOMxwys

Notable: Alan Dershowitz client Claus von Bulow finally dies at 92

>>6631115 @AP

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1134222221034098689

Claus von Bulow, who was charged with trying to kill his wealthy wife to gain her fortune – and was convicted, and then acquitted, in trials that drew intense attention around the globe – has died at age 92.

3:17 PM - 30 May 2019

Notable: Nv. college benefactors died in plane crash.

Nevada husband-wife college benefactors died in Hancock County plane crash

https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/nevada-husband-wife-college-benefactors-died-in-hancock-county-plane-crash/2039790459

Notable: Footage of Kawasaki knife attack recorded by school bus dashcam

Footage of Kawasaki knife attack recorded by school bus dashcam

YOKOHAMA (Kyodo) – Footage of a recent mass stabbing attack in Kawasaki that left a schoolgirl and a man dead and more than a dozen others injured has been recovered from a school bus dashcam, police said Thursday.

The video shows the assailant, Ryuichi Iwasaki, 51, approaching a group of Caritas Elementary School students from behind as they waited for their school bus. It also captured the attack and its aftermath, the police said.

Iwasaki, who later died of self-inflicted wounds to his neck, wielded two 30-centimeter-long knives in the assault that occurred Tuesday in the city near Tokyo.

He wore gloves on his hands in an apparent attempt to prevent the knives from slipping.

Police found two smaller knives in a backpack left at the scene and four empty knife boxes at his home in Kawasaki on Wednesday, they said.

Hanako Kuribayashi, an 11-year-old student, and Foreign Ministry official Satoshi Oyama, the 39-year-old father of an unharmed Caritas Elementary School pupil, were killed in the knife attack around 7:40 a.m. Tuesday.

Seventeen others, mostly children but also a woman who is the mother of a Caritas Elementary School student, were also injured in the incident.

The police said Kuribayashi was stabbed in the neck and Oyama sustained a deep stab wound that pierced his heart. Other victims also sustained upper-body wounds.

Oyama was a Burmese expert who served as an interpreter for former Emperor Akihito and former Empress Michiko when they met with then Myanmar President Thein Sein in 2013 and 2015.

The imperial couple sent their condolences to Oyama's family through the Foreign Ministry, and the Imperial Household Agency said the two, who retired last month, are deeply saddened by the incident.

Caritas Elementary School remains closed in the wake of the attack, while a girls' junior and senior high school run by the same operator reopened Thursday after keeping its gates shut the day before.

Police officers and school officials stood watch as children arrived at the reopened school, many escorted by their parents.

National Police Agency Commissioner General Shunichi Kuryu called the incident "extremely malicious" in a press conference Thursday and said the police as well as government ministries and agencies concerned aim to beef up safety measures for children.

"We will work with municipalities, schools and parents to reinspect the places in which children gather on their way to and from schools," he said, adding police will increase patrols.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190530/p2g/00m/0dm/064000c

Notable: Hillary Clinton to serve as keynote speaker at cyber defense summit

Hillary Clinton to serve as keynote speaker at cyber defense summit

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hillary-clinton-cybersecurity-speaker

Notable: DIA Tweets FVEY history.

@DefenseIntel

https://twitter.com/DefenseIntel/status/1134156384528977921

#TBT Pictured: An excerpt from former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill’s draft of the Atlantic Charter. This charter was the first step in establishing the FVEY community.

Read more about DIA’s involvement in the FVEY partnership at https://go.usa.gov/xmshj

10:55 AM - 30 May 2019

5:5?

>>6630984 No coincidences

Notable: DJT: "The navy put out a disclaimer on the McCain story…"

New POTUS Tweet

twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1134223799300153347

The Navy put out a disclaimer on the McCain story. Looks like the story was an exaggeration, or even Fake News - but why not, everything else is!

Notable: Malaysia wants evidence to show Russia shot down MH17.

TOKYO: The Malaysian government wants strong evidence to show that Russia is responsible for the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 tragedy in 2014, says Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad today.

He said Malaysia accepted the investigation report of Holland but only up to the point where the plane was brought down by a missile made by Russia.

Mahathir said while the government agreed that the plane was brought down by a Russian missile, it cannot be certain that the missile was launched by Russia.

“They are accusing Russia but where is the evidence? We know the missile that brought down the plane is a Russian-type missile, but it could also be made in Ukraine.

“You need strong evidence to show it was fired by the Russians.

“It could be by the rebels in Ukraine; it could be Ukrainian government because they too have the same missile,” he said during a dialogue and media conference with the Japanese Foreign Correspondents Club (FCCJ) here today.

Mahathir said people of Russia are military people and they would know that MH17 is a passenger plane.

“I don’t think a very highly disciplined party is responsible for launching the missile,” he said.

The prime minister said Malaysia should also be involved in examining the black box as the plane belongs to Malaysia and there were Malaysian passengers.

“We may not have the expertise but we can buy the expertise. For some reason, Malaysia was not allowed to check the black box to see what happened.

“We don’t know why we are excluded from the examination but from the very beginning, we see too much politics in it.

“The idea was not to find out how this happened but seems to be concentrated on trying to pin it on the Russians. This is not a neutral kind of examination,” said Mahathir.

“Had a neutral party examined and made the conclusion, Malaysia is willing to accept the findings but here we have parties with political interests in the matter,” he added.

Flight MH17, which departed from Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, on its way to Kuala Lumpur, was shot before crashing near Torez in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, about 40km from the Russian border on July 17, 2014.

The incident killed 298 people, including 15 crew members

The Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team (JIT) said the team was convinced that a BUK Telar missile was used to down MH17, and that it originated from the 53rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade (53rd Brigade), which is a unit of the Russian army in Kursk in the Russian Federation.

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2019/05/31/malaysia-wants-evidence-to-show-russia-shot-down-mh17/

Notable: Total Shock: Uber reports record cash burn, $1 billion loss in first quarter as public company.

Uber Reports Record Cash Burn, $1 Billion Loss In First Quarter As Public Company

In its highly anticipated first quarterly report as a public company, Uber Technologies reported a $1.034 billion loss from operations, more than double the $478 million loss a year ago despite a 20% rise in revenue, posting results that slightly beat forecasts, yet underscoring the challenges the ride-hailing service faces to become profitable one day.

Uber's revenue of $3.1 billion, up from $2.58 billion a year ago, was in line with high end of the range Uber forecast for the quarter, while the loss of $1.0 billion compared with the company's forecast of $1.0 billion to $1.11 billion.

"Our Q1 2019 results were at or near the high end of the ranges we shared last month in our IPO prospectus,” said CFO Nelson Chai. “Our investments remain focused on global platform expansion and long-term product and technology differentiation, but we will not hesitate to invest to defend our market position globally."

Chai also said the company had begun to see "less aggressive pricing" by rivals, although one wouldn't know it looking at the company's EBITDA, because in the quarter revenue hit an all time high, cash burn was a record high ($869) million, more than 3x greater than Q1 2018. In fact, as shown in the chart below, the greater Uber's revenue, the greater the more negative the EBITDA.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-30/uber-reports-record-cash-burn-1-billion-loss-first-quarter-public-company

Uber designed to kill off taxi Fast food delivery and a whole bunch of other industries by using slave drivers

Notable: Former Keith Raniere girlfriend says she was imprisoned for 2 years.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/nxivm-keith-raniere-daniela-trial-testimony-842104/

NXIVM Trial: Former Keith Raniere Girlfriend Says She Was Imprisoned for 2 Years

A witness identified only as Daniela testified that NXIVM head Keith Raniere ordered her to stay in a room as penance for falling in love with another man.

Notable: Conservative group reveals video of Boris Johnson attacking President Trump.

Jack Posobiec

🇺🇸

‏Verified account @JackPosobiec

1m1 minute ago

BREAKING: Conservative Group Reveals Video of Boris Johnson Attacking President Trump - @OANN @nedryun

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1134222050388828162

Notable

Notable: Clintons to launch feminist production company.

So much justice!

Hillary And Chelsea Clinton To Launch Feminist Production Company

The Obama-Netflix deal may pale in comparison to the media powerhouse Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea have cooked up; a new production company focusing on stories by and about women.

With Bill Clinton seemingly uninvolved for obvious reasons, Hillary and Chelsea have reportedly been speaking with studios about financing a slew of surely riveting programming, according to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter who said that the discussions are still in their infancy.

The Clintons plan "to use film and television to influence culture and society now that Hillary Clinton is out of politics," according to the report.

Hillary Clinton previously signed on to help produce a TV show with Steven Spielberg. That series, “The Woman’s Hour,” is an adaptation of a book about activists who fought to earn women the right to vote.

The Clintons are following in the footsteps of the Obamas. Former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle created a production company, Higher Ground Productions, and have a deal at Netflix Inc. Their first slate of shows includes an adaptation of Michael Lewis’s book about federal bureaucracy, as well as a drama series about the world of fashion. -Bloomberg

Perhaps she'll develop a series on how empowered women can rise to such power in America that they can circumvent laws regarding classified information, ignore Congressional subpoenas, use "bleachbit" and physical hammers to destroy evidence in a criminal investigation, and participate in highly unethical regime change - while getting away scot free!

In more recent Clinton news, Hillary Clinton will serve as a keynote speaker at the 2019 Cyber Defense Summit hosted by cybersecurity company FireEye, where she is very likely to recount how the 2016 election was "stolen" from her.

"I think it’s also critical to understand that, as I’ve been telling candidates who have come to see me, you can run the best campaign, you can even become the nominee, and you can have the election stolen from you," said Clinton during an event in May.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-30/hillary-and-chelsea-clinton-launch-feminist-production-company

Notable: Barr: Why didn't the govt. warn Trump campaign?

Barr Investigating Why a 2016 “Counterintelligence Defensive Briefing” Did NOT Warn Trump Campaign About ‘Russian Outreach’

According to Fox News reporter Catherine Herridge, the FBI did not tell then-candidate Donald Trump that the ‘Russians’ were trying to infiltrate his campaign during a defensive intel briefing in mid-August of 2016.

Counterintelligence chief Peter Strzok was a coordinator for the FBI briefing, which included multiple agencies in August of 2016, just 18 days after Strzok opened “Crossfire Hurricane,” the CI investigation into ‘Trump-Russia.’

Herridge says the FBI never warned Trump about the so-called ‘Russian outreach,’ nor did they warn Trump that two of his aides, General Mike Flynn and George Papadopoulos were under FBI investigation, even though the defensive briefing is designed to warned candidates about national security threats.

Isn’t the FBI supposed to protect American citizens?

Via Fox News:

A mid-August 2016 counterintelligence briefing for the Trump campaign did not specifically warn officials about Russian outreach to the Trump team, nor did it warn that two campaign aides, Mike Flynn and George Papadopoulos, were already under FBI investigation, Fox News has learned.

The new details about the so-called “defensive briefing” have emerged from congressional letters, text messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and lawyer Lisa Page, and sources familiar with the matter. Such briefings are designed to warn the candidate and his team about national security threats.

“There was a defensive briefing of candidate Trump on Aug. 17 of 2016,” Texas Rep. John Ratcliffe, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said Thursday on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.” “And I can tell you what he wasn’t told: He wasn’t warned about a Russia investigation that Peter Strzok had opened 18 days earlier.”

Just days before Strzok’s August 2016 “defensive briefing,” text messages indicate Strzok set up times to rehearse. Strzok text his paramour Lisa Page on August 13: “Im going to have (redacted) do his CI (counterintelligence) brief presentation for me and Jon and (redacted) on Mon afternoon.”

Strzok also texted of another planned rehearsal: “I want to do another one Tues AM for at least Bill,” he said in reference to his FBI boss Bill Priestap. “You think add you, [FBI lawyer] Jim Baker? I want both (f)rank and thoughtfulness for feedback. Plus repetitions for him.”

Two days later Strzok sent Lisa Page his infamous “insurance policy” text.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/huge-barr-investigating-why-a-2016-counterintelligence-defensive-briefing-did-not-warn-trump-campaign-about-russian-outreach/

Notable: DJT Jr. wears trump punisher logo 3% shirt.

>>6630874

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx904O9FpDs/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Don jr wears trump punisher logo 3% shirt

NOTABLE

Notable: Louisiana’s Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed a fetal heartbeat abortion ban, breaking with his own party

@AP

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1134209115142721537

BREAKING: Louisiana’s Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards has signed a fetal heartbeat abortion ban, breaking with his own party.

2:25 PM - 30 May 2019

Notable: Homeland Security: See Something, Say Something

@DHSgov

https://twitter.com/DHSgov/status/1134180175149617152

If You See Something, Say Something®" and @NBA remind you to be aware of your surroundings in the stands or wherever you’re watching the NBA Finals. Stay vigilant and report suspicious activity to local authorities. #SeeSay #ProtectYourEveryday

12:30 PM - 30 May 2019

Notable: World Trade Ctr contractors indicted for "pay-to-play" scheme

World Trade Center contractors indicted for ‘pay-to-play’ scheme

https://nypost.com/2019/05/30/world-trade-center-contractors-indicted-for-pay-to-play-scheme/

Notable: Florida investigating WeBuildtheWall

https://newsbreakinglive.com/2019/05/29/breaking-investigation-launched-into-group-trying-to-build-border-wall/

The state of Florida has reportedly launched an investigation into the group that raised money online in what they say was an attempt to privately build a border wall.

WeBuildTheWall Inc., which is incorporated in Florida, raised $23 million dollars online to build a border wall. Florida officials say that they launched the investigation after receiving several consumer complaints about the company.

WeBuldTheWall originally planned to gift the money it raised to the federal government. But after the Treasury Department said that any money transfered to the federal government would be put in a “general use” fund, Kolfage changed his approach, saying he would start a non-profit and use the funds raised to privately build a fence in the U.S.-Mexico border.

The group announced this weekend that it had begun construction on a one mile section of their proposed wall.

Source: Florida Launches Investigation Into Group Trying To Privately Build Border Wall | WLRN

Notable: Anon-recommended tweet thread on Mueller and POTUS

Great tweet thread on Mueller and POTUS and their 'relationship' and how POTUS is the

MASTER TROLL ARTIST

https://twitter.com/RodSneaky/status/1134197687400534016

Notable: >>6630510 DJT's tweet on "removal forces"; preparing the public for his next move?

>>6630474

He is providing public justification for what he's about to do, to attempt to mitigate potential MSM outrage.

May 17, 2019 tweet

Notable: New DJT: on Border Patrol apprehending 1000

DJT TWEET

Yesterday, Border Patrol agents apprehended the largest group of illegal aliens ever: 1,036 people who illegally crossed the border in El Paso around 4am. Democrats need to stand by our incredible Border Patrol and finally fix the loopholes at our Border!

The tweet includes video

Notable: Radiation concerns halt Brussels 5G development–for now

>>6630300

No 5G in Brussels.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/brussels-all-news/55052/radiation-concerns-halt-brussels-5g-for-now/

Notable: HRC & Chelsea form production company

Thiiiiis biiiiitch kekekekekekekekekekekek

https://apple.news/AT9Vn8WYYS0WOE2GuwAbN7g

Notable: Toomey: Sanctuary Cities ‘Endanger the Public,’ ‘Should Come to an End’

Toomey: Sanctuary Cities ‘Endanger the Public,’ ‘Should Come to an End’

Senator proposes defunding sanctuary jurisdictions

Sanctuary policies pose a threat to public safety, Sen. Pat Toomey (R., Pa.) thinks; his new legislation would block them from receiving some federal funds to try to change their minds.

"We've historically relied on common sense and a common sense of duty to protect the public from dangerous criminals," Toomey told the Washington Free Beacon in an interview Wednesday. "Unfortunately, that expectation no longer applies to these cities. So, we've got a bill that would withhold funding that the cities very much like, with the hope that that would begin to change their mind."

Toomey's bill, reintroduced last Thursday, would deny federal grant money to sanctuary jurisdictions, either cities or states. Toomey floated the proposal last year, when it was denied cloture as part of a series of votes on immigration taken by the Senate in a single whirlwind session.

The goal of the proposal, Toomey explained, is to "create a powerful disincentive so that the sanctuary cities would no longer be sanctuary cities." In his view, sanctuary policies endanger the public by permitting illegally resident offenders to roam the streets, rather than deporting them to their home countries.

Immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility, overseen by a bevy of agencies mostly under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security. Under federal law, however, immigration officials can delegate their enforcement authority temporarily to state and local law enforcement, permitting them to help with deportation. Federal officers can also issue detainers, asking local law enforcement to hold on to and eventually hand over individuals whom they have already arrested and subsequently ascertained to be illegally resident.

Sanctuary jurisdictions are those cities and states which refuse to coordinate with federal law enforcement on these immigration functions. An estimated eight states, as well as dozens of cities, fit the bill. Those include a number of counties in Toomey's state of Pennsylvania, as well as the largest city, Philadelphia. (Second-largest city Pittsburgh is not officially a sanctuary city, although Mayor Bill Peduto (D.) has signaled sympathy to the idea.)

"Pennsylvania has seen what happens with sanctuary cities," Toomey said. "They become a magnet for dangerous criminals who are in this country illegally." He argued that illegally resident criminals flock to sanctuary jurisdictions because they know that if they are apprehended, they will not face deportation—that in a sense, city or state officials are on their side in a way that they would not be in non-sanctuary cities or states.

"Why in the world do they want to protect these people when among them are violent criminals?" Toomey said. "That's what we're talking about here: We're talking about people who are being picked up by local law enforcement for a reason. … The idea that we've got to protect these criminals from the consequences of their own prior criminal acts is just unbelievable to me."

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/toomey-sanctuary-cities-endanger-the-public-should-come-to-an-end/

Notable: Ahead of today’s shareholders meeting, calls to ‘Fire Zuck’ and ‘Break up Facebook’

Ahead of today’s shareholders meeting, calls to ‘Fire Zuck’ and ‘Break up Facebook’

Proposals to rein in Mark Zuckerberg’s power in the spotlight

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/05/30/ahead-of-todays-shareholders-meeting-calls-to-fire-zuck-and-break-up-facebook/

“We’ve been pressuring Facebook since 2015 to reform its policies so to protect the safety of black users,” said Brandi Collins-Dexter, senior campaign director for Color of Change, in a statement. “Even though Facebook has made encouraging changes in the last few months … reforming the corporate governance structure at Facebook is one important step to ensure lasting change is not dependent on the whims of one person.”

Notable: 23 months spent in a room, as told by daniela at the NXIVM trial

sarah berman

‏@sarahberms

23 months spent in a room, as told by daniela at the NXIVM trial

yesterday and today.

1:37 PM - 30 May 2019

https://twitter.com/sarahberms/status/1134197180301021189

more

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evy58a/i-was-gone-from-the-world-and-nobody-noticed-one-womans-story-of-being-trapped-by-nxivm

Notable: anon finds anomaly in Smollett case file

>>6629678

States he was able to see the person skin color through the open eyes of the mask…This is hilarious!

Notable: Marketfag report

US Market Report

Volumes

DOW

Volume 184,492,364

Avg. Volume 298,062,539

NAS

Volume 1,533,089,858

Avg. Volume 2,194,469,523

SP500

Volume 1,633,427,126

Avg. Volume 3,527,037,460

Some Headlines:

Oil falls to two-mth lows on small U.S. crude stock draw, trade war worries

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-oil/oil-falls-to-two-mth-lows-on-small-u-s-crude-stock-draw-trade-war-worries-idUSKCN1T004F

GE's CEO 'stunned' that factory efficiency drive only just started

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ge-ceo/ges-ceo-stunned-that-factory-efficiency-drive-only-just-started-idUSKCN1T02A3

Which Chinese Banks Will Fail Next?

Yesterday we reported that in the aftermath of the failure of China's Baoshang Bank (BSB), and its subsequent seizure by the government - the first takeover of a commercial bank since the Hainan Development Bank 20 years ago - the PBOC appeared to panic and injected a whopping 250 billion yuan via an open-market operation, the largest since January.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-30/which-chinese-banks-will-fail-next

Uber to report first earnings as a public company, with eyes on food delivery

good luck with 'dat

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/uber-reports-first-earnings-as-a-public-company-110000225.html

Market Action

Low volume drifting as it did nothing much since the futures action last night. Of note, the treasury auctions continue with the long-end of the curve starting next week. It's no coincidence that yields are low as this is what they pay to the 'investors' who buy them to mitigate risk profiles.

See Cap#3 for remaining schedule into July.

The ten year is still lower than the Fed Funds discount rate so it's cheaper for this system to pass that back and forth instead of go directly to the FRB for capital-that has its limits too.'''

Cryptos & Crude Crack As Credit & Yield Curve Collapse Continues

Chinese stocks were lower overnight as an afternoon bid failed to get back to even, but remain higher on the week thanks to PBOC's panicky liquidity injection.

see story above

For the second day in a row a sudden buying panic program lifted at 1534ET.

PANIC baby..nothing but PANIC-kek!

The trillion dollar tech stocks aren't anymore…

ha ha hahahahahahaha

Financials continue to outperform the market, despite plunging yield curve.

this is fuggen ridiculous- the debt they carry is staggering and the Qrtly reports show they can't hack it even with fixed income.

Credit spreads continue to push wider (echoing 2018)

How about 2007-2009 bitchezzzz.

Many claimed that after a strong month for bonds (and weak for stocks) that month-end pension rebalancing would spark forced buying in stocks… that didn't happen…

Again go look up the SERCO report(s) in the catalog to see what this process was/is really used for…it's not rebalancing I can assure you.

Treasury yields tumbled once again (down 9-10bps on the week), despite a small hope-filled rise overnight.

'''See cap#4

10Y Yields broke down to yesterday's lows after Pence's China comments.

The yield curve slumped back to cycle lows, erasing yesterday's late-day bounce.

Tick,tock…MFers

Yuan managed gains on the day but remains down from PBOC warnings to shorts.

The current printing session ends early next week-they will have to do it again and again-no choice now.

WTI is the lowest since mid-Feb (testing and losing its 100DMA).

This is good for us hardworking pepe's

And gold was bid on heavy volume up to its 50DMA.

Most likely spec positions being taken as the qtr closes…a good sign in either case-needs some love and a move solidly over $1300 to attract moar attention.

Finally, we note that, having diverged massively for a few months, the correlation between the S&P 500 and US Treasury yields has accelerated in recent weeks, back to its highest level since Aug 2016.

The question is - will the relationship revert like in 2016 (rates higher) or 2007 (equities lower)?

No- POTUS got this…..

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-30/crypto-cracks-credit-yield-curve-collapse-continues

https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/bond/tmubmusd10y?countrycode=bx

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EIXIC?p=^IXIC

https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/quarterly-refunding/Documents/auctions.pdf

Notable: >>6629657 Cybersecurity Expert and Email Guru, Hillary Clinton, to keynote Cyber Defense Summit

you have to be shitting me

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Keynote FireEye Cyber Defense Summit

World’s leading cyber security experts, government officials and executives collaborate to solve for tomorrow’s risks, today

Among the keynote speaker lineup, Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will engage in a Q&A discussion with FireEye CEO, Kevin Mandia on the geopolitical landscape and its implications for global cyber security today. Secretary Clinton has been a practicing attorney and law professor, an advocate of internet freedom, First Lady, and U.S. Senator from New York, in addition to serving as the 67th United States Secretary of State.

“Differences among nations today, driven by friction in geopolitics, economics, security and technology, are having a significant impact on global cyber conflict. Secretary Clinton’s extensive knowledge of foreign policy, her firsthand experience on the front lines of diplomacy, and her understanding of the challenges facing open, democratic societies give her a unique perspective on some of the most pressing conversations shaping our world today,” said Mandia.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190530005027/en/U.S.-Secretary-State-Hillary-Rodham-Clinton-Keynote

Notable: Chicago prosecutors charge R Kelly with 11 new sex-related counts involving one victim.

https://twitter.com/AP/status/1134183410627469319

Notable: FISA Judge announced most of alleged FISA enabled surveillance was not compliant with law.

FISA Court exposes Obama’s abuse of NSA to spy on Americans

written by L.J. Keith

May 28, 2019

WASHINGTON, DC: The Obama White House used the most sensitive intrusive surveillance systems of the NSA to spy on Americans. A ruling by FISA Court Presiding Judge Rosemary Collyer finds that 85% of NSA database requests under FISA section 702 authority at the DOJ were illegal or noncompliant. Surveillance systems, including PRISM, spying on hundreds if not thousands of Americans. Including Donald Trump and those around him. (United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review Amicus Brief)

Moreover, Collyer finds, that the Department of Justice showed an appalling “lack of institutional candor”.

FISA Judge Collyer rules illegal spying occurred

In April 2017 Judge Collyer found that unwarranted and illegal surveillance of American citizens was done by the highest reaches of the Obama Administration for at least 4 years, starting in 2012. (Secret court rebukes NSA for 5-year illegal surveillance of U.S. citizens– MAY 26, 2017 ). Moreover, James Comey did authorize and allow for limitless, continuous, unlawful, and warrantless access by three Federal contractors. (Institutional Lack of Candor – FISA Violations January 24, 2018).

That those contractors had accessed over 40000 searches of the NSA programs and databases, including PRISM, during that 48-month period of time.

Obama Clinton Coup Attempt: Decimating the “peaceful transition of power”

Out of approximately 5000 searches of the NSA database from October 2016 to April of 2017 in the National Security Division of the DOJ, 4250 of them were deemed illegal or non-compliant by the Presiding Judge of the FISA court.

That its targets were American citizens. Prominent Republicans. That the abuse was continuous, frequently entering the same person’s name over a protracted period of time.

Collyer ruled that this information was shared and disseminated unlawfully to John Brennan and James Clapper. Furthermore, information was disseminated within the Obama administration in violation of the 4th amendment.

From Obama and Brennan -The damage brought on America

How is it that Obama and Brennan could get away with being so diabolically sociopathic. Surely they knew what they were doing was illegal. All under the authorization of James Comey. He knew it was illegal.

It seems it was pure arrogance and hubris. They were sure they would not get caught. They were sure that Hillary Clinton’s election was inevitable and would cover up their crimes.

I’m sure they all thought they would get a promotion for their efforts.

And when they did get caught, they fought back with treason. By continuing to usurp the constitution. Undermining the incoming President with the Russia hoax. Trying to cover up their litany of crimes. And staging an attempted coup against Donald Trump.

A reckoning is coming

Fortunately for America, Mike Rogers was a true patriot. He uncovered and stopped the abuse, and reported it to the FISA Court. (Who is Adm. Mike Rogers? Unsung ‘hero’ alerted President Trump to illegal spying) FISA Court Judge Rosemary Collyer presented honest findings to the Attorney General and DNI outlining the specific, intentional, systematic, unlawful and unconstitutional nature of the abuse.

She called it illegal and a clear violation of the 4th Amendment.

-MORE-

https://www.commdiginews.com/politics-2/obama-white-house-fisa-nsa-prism-spy-americans-2012-119410/amp/

Notable: iPhones Harvest And Transmit Massive Amounts Of Data While You Sleep

iPhones Harvest And Transmit Massive Amounts Of Data While You Sleep

iPhones are surprisingly active in the middle of the night, according to a report by Washington Post Technology writer, Geoffrey Fowler.

Fowler tracked his iPhone's activity recently, finding that dozens of companies were receiving information at all hours.

On a recent Monday night, a dozen marketing companies, research firms and other personal data guzzlers got reports from my iPhone. At 11:43 p.m., a company called Amplitude learned my phone number, email and exact location. At 3:58 a.m., another called Appboy got a digital fingerprint of my phone. At 6:25 a.m., a tracker called Demdex received a way to identify my phone and sent back a list of other trackers to pair up with.

And all night long, there was some startling behavior by a household name: Yelp. It was receiving a message that included my IP address -— once every five minutes. -WaPo

Also not lost on Fowler was the irony of a January Apple advertisement which claimed "What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone."

iPhone apps passing information in the middle of the night include Microsoft OneDrive, Intuit’s Mint, Nike, Spotify, The Washington Post and IBM’s the Weather Channel. "One app, the crime-alert service Citizen, shared personally identifiable information in violation of its published privacy policy," Fowler notes.

With the help of privacy firm Disconnect, Fowler encountered over 5,400 trackers in just one week - mostly within apps, that send his information to third party companies. Over the course of a month, the unwanted trackers were on track to upload 1.5 gigabytes of data.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-30/iphones-harvest-massive-amount-data-while-you-sleep

Notable: Barr says he felt Mueller 'could've reached a decision' on obstruction

Barr says he felt Mueller 'could've reached a decision' on obstruction

Attorney General William Barr says he believes special counsel Robert Mueller could have reached a decision on whether President Trump obstructed justice during the course of his 22-month investigation.

"I personally felt he could've reached a decision," Barr told CBS on Thursday.

Barr pointed to Justice Department guidance that says a sitting president cannot be indicted, adding that Mueller "could've reached a decision as to whether there was criminal activity."

Mueller said Wednesday in remarks from the Justice Department that the guidance prevented his team from charging Trump with a crime.

"It would be unfair to potentially accuse somebody of a crime when there can be no court resolution of the actual charge," he said.

However, the special counsel also declined to exonerate Trump, leaving some Democrats to say that it was up to Congress to pursue impeachment.

“After that investigation, if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said that,” Mueller said.

During the clip released Thursday, Barr pushed back on the idea that Mueller was handing over to Congress the decision on whether to take action against Trump.

"I am not sure what he was suggesting, but you know the Department of Justice doesn’t use our powers of investigating crimes as an adjunct to Congress," Barr said.

Some Democrats have seized on Mueller's remarks Wednesday –– his first public comments since he was appointed special counsel two years ago –– to push for the start of an impeachment inquiry against Trump.

During the surprise press conference at the Justice Department, Mueller signaled that he did not want to testify before Congress and that his sprawling 448-page report detailing his investigation's findings "speaks for itself."

Mueller did not directly mention impeachment in his remarks, but did note that the same DOJ guidance that prevented any potential indictment of Trump also states that "the Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing."

The DOJ has also sought to bridge any potential gap between remarks given by Barr and Mueller on the role that department guidance played in Mueller's decision to not reach a conclusion on whether Trump obstructed justice.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/446189-barr-says-he-felt-mueller-couldve-reached-a-decision-on-obstruction

Notable: >>6629503, >>6629643, >>6629661, >>6629741 Smollett files released by CPD.

https://twitter.com/cbschicago/status/1134180764801753089

Notable: Arnav Gupta dig

Are You Awake

Part One and Two

by Arnav Gupta

Posted 09/09/17

$17 prints

https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/arnav-gupta.html

Notable: >>6628593 Q post 50 yard line graphic

>>6628593

Notable: Joe Biden ‘Has Taken Billions of Dollars in Bribes from the Chinese Government’

Steve Hilton: Joe Biden ‘Has Taken Billions of Dollars in Bribes from the Chinese Government’

Former Vice President Joe Biden took “billions of dollars in bribes from the Chinese government,” Steve Hilton, host of Fox News Channel’s The Next Revolution, told hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak during an interview on Breitbart News Tonight on Tuesday.

On April 28, Hilton laid out details of financial dealings between Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s second son, and foreign governments, companies, and oligarchs.

The Biden family’s financial ties to the Chinese state will become a central election issue if the former vice president secures the Democrats’ presidential nomination for 2020, predicted Hilton.

“If [Joe Biden] is [nominated], it will be the central issue, actually, because there’s no question that the number one strategic priority for the next president will be keeping America ahead in the face of China’s implacable determination to topple the U.S.A. as the world’s superpower,” said Hilton.

Hilton continued, “That is not some scare story. That is what [Chinese officials] have said in their speeches and written in their books. It is very clearly stated. Their goal is to topple America and take back what they see as their rightful place as the world’s superpower, and they want to do it on their terms.”

“They don’t want to do it by joining our system and beating us at our own game,” said Hilton of China’s geopolitical ambition to displace America as the world’s leading superpower. “They want to change the game. They want to continue with their authoritarian one-party rule system of governance and spread that as an empire all around the world.”

Hilton warned, “They have various plans that they are currently to deliver that: the One Belt, One Road infrastructure initiative, the Made in China 2025 plan to dominate the ten big industries of the future and so on. This is a really serious effort on their part.”

President Donald Trump, assessed Hilton, broke from the status quo of Western appeasement and facilitation of China’s global ascendance.

Hilton remarked, “President Trump is not just the first American president, but the first Western leader in any country in about 50 years to actually wake up to this, recognize, and say, ‘No, we’re not just going to sit idly by and allow China to overtake us and hope that by being nice to them, they’ll play nice with us.’ We know that’s not true.”

Hilton went on, “In his very simple but effective way, President Trump has said there’s only one language [Chinese authorities] understand, and that is the language of strength. We don’t want to go to war with them militarily, but we’ve got one very important weapon which is the economic weapon, and he’s going to apply it — tariffs — and it’s already having an effect because the source of China’s strength and ability to pursue this goal of world domination is its economy, and the economy is based on being the manufacturing center for the world.”

https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2019/05/29/steve-hilton-joe-biden-taken-billions-dollars-bribes-chinese-government/

Notable: @NCSCgov we wish the General a speedy recovery

>>6628657 @NCSCgov

https://twitter.com/NCSCgov/status/1134116299196575744

OTD: 30 May 2006, Gen. Michael Hayden, USAF, was sworn in as D/CIA. General Hayden, had also previously commanded the Air Intelligence Agency and led the NSA while still in uniform. Recovering from a stroke, we wish the General a speedy recovery https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/02/opinions/michael-hayden-surviving-a-stroke/index.html …

8:16 AM - 30 May 2019

Notable: Hungarian Researcher Documents Hundreds of Democrat Organizations Linked to Soros

Hungarian Researcher Documents Hundreds of Democrat Organizations Linked to Soros

Viktor Orbán adviser Maria Schmidt: Hundreds of Democrat organizations linked to Soros

In the EU elections the party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán achieved the sensational result of 52%, the best for any party in Europe. On May 25, historian Dr. Maria Schmidt, a close confidante of Orbán, gave a talk to a U.S. travel group hosted by Dr. Daniel Pipes of the Middle East Forum, praising Donald Trump as “a politcial realist” and Orbán’s “twin brother.”

Gateway Pundit met with Dr. Schmidt, head of the local Terror House Museum on the Nazi and Soviet terror, who alerted us to this powerful essay she wrote in 2017 about George Soros’ influence in Hungary and the Democratic Party – which we are reprinting here with her permission:

The Gravedigger of the Left

What kind of philanthropist is a serial destroyer of European and Asian currencies, who wiped out the savings, retirement pensions and salaries of masses of ordinary citizens in order to reap huge profits for himself?

“The recipe is a simple one. Identify a business target worth acquiring. Send your NGOs onto the spot destabilize the region, arrange for the necessary media tailwind, create chaos, and as soon as that is done become the one who organizes help for reconstruction while cherry-picking the most profitable business opportunities. Pull down the borders that are undue obstacles to your movements. Dismantle national sovereignty to avoid obstacles in your designs from the interests of the local population. Buy off the experts with money, scholarships, awards, fame, recognition or personal promotion, depending on their propensities. Prevent their affiliations from being detected or their incompetence from being revealed, as happened when the data on global warming turned out to have been doctored for the second time. Buy off the local media TV and radio stations, dailies, weeklies, as well as web magazines. Label them as independent outlets and remunerate them properly to have them work for the purposes you set for them. Reward them and promote them too. You can identify the media outlets that are stuffed with Soros money in Hungary and internationally by their habit of following the Leninist tactics of personal attacks. They never challenge causes, statements, suggestions, which would be too tiresome both for themselves and for the public. They prefer intimidating individuals or, if that doesn’t suffice, annihilating them. Their activists and journalists are experts in character assassination.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/hungarian-researcher-documents-hundreds-of-democrat-organizations-linked-to-soros/

http://abouthungary.hu/blog/the-gravedigger-of-the-left/

Notable: Biden Being Biden - inappropriate with a 10 year old

Fucking pedo-creep just can't help himself! smfh

Biden puts his hands on 10-year-old girl: ‘I bet you’re as bright as you are good looking’

Creepy Joe is back!

During an event with government school unionists in Houston today, Joe Biden complimented a young girl’s appearance, saying, “I bet you’re as bright as you are good looking,” as he leaned towards her face.

The girl told him she wanted to be a journalist, which caused him to stand upright and respond, “I better be more circumspect in my answer!”

He ended up putting his hands on the 10-year-old girl, despite promises to respect boundaries:

Now his campaign’s efforts to keep him away from voters and the media is beginning to make sense.

http://www.theamericanmirror.com/biden-hits-on-young-girl-i-bet-youre-as-bright-as-you-are-good-looking/

Notable: Longtime Senator Thad Cochran has died

Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran dead at 81

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/longtime-mississippi-republican-sen-thad-cochran-dead-at-81

Notable: "Common Cause" group alleges redistricting motivation is behinds census citizenship question

New filings allege GOP redistricting motivation behind census citizenship question

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/446113-new-filings-allege-gop-redistricting-motivation-behind-census

Notable: OIG Tweet w/PDF enclosed

https://twitter.com/JusticeOIG/status/1134135401806012416

Notable: US Army Tweet-Looking at earth from above

It’s just something about looking at the earth from above. This one could be you 🇺🇸🤙

twitter.com/ArmyGK/status/1134118601705893888

Notable: Moar from POTUS-Colorado Arrival

>>6627858

Moar DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1134134880860852225

Notable: USMC Tweet-Muddy Water

Muddy Water

twitter.com/USMC/status/1134066929340018689

Notable: Did Brits warn about Steele's credibility, before Mueller's probe?-The Hill

Did Brits warn about Steele's credibility, before Mueller's probe? Congress has evidence

One of the deepest, darkest secrets of Russiagate soon may be unmasked. Even President Trump may be surprised.

Multiple witnesses have told Congress that, a week before Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, Britain’s top national security official sent a private communique to the incoming administration, addressing his country’s participation in the counterintelligence probe into the now-debunked Trump-Russia election collusion.

Most significantly, then-British national security adviser Sir Mark Lyall Grant claimed in the memo, hand-delivered to incoming U.S. national security adviser Mike Flynn’s team, that the British government lacked confidence in the credibility of former MI6 spy Christopher Steele’s Russia collusion evidence, according to congressional investigators who interviewed witnesses familiar with the memo.

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/446050-did-brits-warn-about-steeles-credibility-before-muellers-probe-congress

Sir Grant, pictured with MAYday MAYday MAYday, his boss

Notable: DoD Tweet-Leap of faith

Leap of faith!

twitter.com/DeptofDefense/status/1134127332715896835

Notable: Democrat Organizations Linked to Soros

Hungarian Researcher Documents Hundreds of Democrat Organizations Linked to Soros https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/05/hungarian-researcher-documents-hundreds-of-democrat-organizations-linked-to-soros/

http://abouthungary.hu/blog/the-gravedigger-of-the-left/

Notable: >>6627472 DJT: …A total Conflict of Interest. NICE!

New DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1134120831389392896

Notable: >>6627528 Q inb4 POTUS

>>6627158

Wasn't this a drop?

Notable: DJT: "Comey and Brennan are turning on each other." @kilmeade

NEW POTUS TWEET

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1134107544681455616

Notable: Summary of Arnav Gupta missing and burning

>>6627063

A 33-year-old Indian man has died after setting himself ablaze near the White House, police said on Thursday.

Arnav Gupta from Bethesda in Maryland died of burn injuries after he set himself ablaze on Wednesday at the Ellipse, a tourist-filled 52-acre public park near the White House.

Once the flames were extinguished, Gupta was rushed to a local hospital for treatment but died on Thursday morning, the United States Park Police said in a statement.

"At approximately 12:20 pm a man lit himself on fire on the Ellipse near 15th and Constitution Ave., Secret Service personnel are on scene assisting @NatlParkService and @usparkpolicepio in rendering first aid," according to a tweet by the US Secret Service.

Police said Gupta was reported missing by his family since Wednesday morning. The authorities then put out a notice asking for the public's help in finding him.

He was last seen by his family around 9:20 am Wednesday when he left his home on Cindy Lane, about 16 kms northwest of the White House, the Washington Post reported.

Montgomery County Police said the family was “concerned for Gupta’s physical and emotional welfare”.

Authorities are trying to identify the accelerant (a substance used to aid the spread of fire) that was used and determine whether a car belonging to Gupta was parked in the area.

The Washington D.C. police have taken over the investigation.

A 17-year-old girl from Alexandria, who was sightseeing with a cousin visiting from Bolivia, saw part of the incident and captured it on video. She sent it to her father, who posted it on Twitter, the paper reported.

The video shows smoke billowing from the lawn near a guard shack and some flames visible above parked cars.

The girl’s father, Krisjan Berzins, said that his daughter saw “Secret Service agents running toward him trying to extinguish the fire”.

In April, authorities said a man riding a motorised wheelchair set his jacket on fire outside the White House.

He was not critically injured and was involuntarily committed for psychiatric help.

https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/world-news-indian-man-dies-after-setting-himself-ablaze-near-white-house/331248

Notable: Trump is planning to have a “major” statement regarding the border

President Donald Trump to issue ‘big-league’ statement on the border

https://ktar.com/story/2595405/president-donald-trump-to-issue-big-league-statement-on-the-border/

BY KTAR.COM | MAY 30, 2019 AT 6:52 AM

UPDATED: MAY 30, 2019 AT 7:11 AM

President Donald Trump talks with reporters before departing on Marine One for the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony, Thursday, May 30, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

PHOENIX — Donald Trump is planning to have a “major” statement regarding the border, the president announced Thursday morning.

While being asked questions on special counsel Robert Mueller, Louisiana’s abortion ban and the report that the White House wanted the USS John S. McCain out of sight during the president’s trip to Japan, Trump said he would be giving a statement on the border either later in the day Thursday or Friday.

“This is a big-league statement but we are going to do something very dramatic on the border because people are coming into our country. The Democrats will not give us laws, will not change laws,” Trump said after also saying he would have a statement regarding Louisiana’s abortion ban.

“They will not meet, they will not do anything. They want to have open borders, they want to have crime, they want to have drugs pouring into our country, they want to have human trafficking.”

“We have brought something to the light of the people,” Trump added prior to boarding Marine One for the Air Force Academy graduation ceremony. “They see now it’s a national emergency, and most people agree, the Democrats agree too, but they won’t give us the legislation to fix it. Right now, if you catch somebody, you have to release them.

“They won’t give us the legislation, whether it be chain migration or whether it’s lottery, they won’t give us any and the asylum procedures are ridiculous. no place in the world has what we have in ridiculous immigration laws.”

While the details of the statement were not immediately known, Trump did say that the border would not be closed, but “was doing something else” when asked by a reporter.

The announcement comes after a federal judge blocked the president from building key sections of his border wall with money secured under Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on Friday. Trump pledged to file an expedited appeal of the ruling the following day.

Notable: >>6627116 Exerpts from Judicial Watch Eric Boswell transcript

>>6626511 (lb) from notables

Judicial Watch interview w/Eric Boswell

http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JW-v-State-Boswell-deposition-01242.pdf

Anons

Just finished reading this.

It was questions to Eric J. Boswell, Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security, during HRC time as SoS

Most centered around HRC / staff use of Blackberries (non-gov ones) also attempts to get secure ones via NSA

For this guy (a 37 yr employee) this was at least 7 years ago, so many things he didn't recall.

I don't think he was obfuscating and seemed to be honest (but you never know)

Anyway, the major take-a ways are:

*Clinton was WELL AWARE of the risks posed by use of non-secure devises for gov. comms.

(pics related)

*The "seventh floor" which is where Mahogany Row (SoS / sr. staff offices) is located was one Giant SCIF (see p. 36)

Notable: >>6627062 Transcript of POTUS Q&A on the lawn. POTUS BTFO fake news

>>6627021

CANNOT SAY THANK YOU ENOUGH BAKER!!!

POTUS DROPPED A MOAB ON THE LAWN…

here's a recap if you missed it.

ASK ME ANYTHING WITH POTUS & PEPE:

(a short story)👨‍🌾

We just got news that TURKEY has released a prisoner that we were trying to get… he was released to home custody, and from there he will come to the United States…

It was GREAT! prisoner/hostage… wutever you wanna call him…

he will be released fairly soon, so that's good news.

other than that things are going very well.

the economy is doing FANTASTICALLY WELL.

We have close to 160billion people working today, which is moar than we have ever had before…

I'm going out to Colorado today to give the commencement address to the airforce… which is actually very exciting for me, it's an amazing place, GREAT PEOPLE… so I look forward to doing that… any questions?

Q: [MUELLER]

POTUS: Well I think it was just like the report… nothing much changed…and there was NO OBSTRUCTION, there's NO COLLUSION, there's no NOTHING, …it's nothin' but a WITCH HUNT, a witch hunt by the media and democrats (cuz they're partners) and it keeps going, I thought it was finished when the report was released.. but it goes on!

To me it was the same as the report, and he said basically it was the same as the report.

I think he is totally conflicted, because as you know, he wanted to be the FBI director, and I said NO.

As you know I had a business dispute with him after he left the FBI, we had a business dispute… not a nice one, he wasn't happy with what I did, and I don't blame him but I had to do it because that was the RIGHT THING TO DO, but I had a business dispute. He LOVES COMEY… you look at the relationship with those two, rather it's love or deep like… he was conflicted. look, Mueller should've never been chosen.. he wanted the FBI job and he didn't get it, and the next day he was picked as Special Counsel. So you tell somebody 'I'm sorry you can't have the job, then after you say that he's gunna make a ruling on you? it doesn't work that way.

+ we had a business dispute + his relationship with COMEY was extraordinary… now one other thing I will say, WHY DIDN'T HE INVESTIGATE STRZOK&MCCABE&COMEY and the lies&BRENNAN and the lies&CLAPPER and the lies…

WHY DIDN'T COMEY COME CLEAN?

Why didn't MUELLER investigate COMEY? his best friend?

HERE'S A QUESTION… this is the study of Russia,

why didn't they study the insurance policy? (should Hillary lose, we've got an insurance policy) well guess what…

WHAT WE ARE IN RIGHT NOW IS THE INSURANCE POLICY.

I think MUELLER is a total conflicted person, he is a TRUE NEVER TRUMPER, he's somebody who dislikes DJT, he's somebody who didn't get a job that he wanted very badly…

and DESPITE THAT.. despite 40 million dollars, 18 Trump haters including some people who worked for Hillary Clinton, some of the worst people on Earth… and they got nothing.

IT'S PRETTY AMAZING!

Q: [DID RUSSIA HELP YOU GET ELECTED?]

NO Russia did not help me get elected… you know who got me elected? I GOT ME ELECTED.

Russia didn't help me at all, if anything Russia helped the otherside.

What you outta ask is dis:

Do you think the MEDIA helped HRC get elected? She didn't make it, but you take a look at collusion between Hillary Clinton and the media, take a look between Hillary Clinton and Russia…

She had more to do with the campaign with Russia than I did..

BY THE WAY, that's another thing.

If you look, THIS WAS ALL ABOUT RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA.

They don't talk about Russia anymore, because it turned out to be a hoax, it was ALL A HOAX, a totally false accusation, it was a disgrace… it's a very sad period.

and I think in the end, I will consider what is habbening now to be one of my GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS…

EXPOSING THIS CORRUPTION!

Notable: DJT: Congressman John Ratcliffe, "The Trump Campaign clearly did not conspire or collude." @FoxNews

DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1134092525218590721

Notable: Anon calls to dig on Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI)

https://www.crisisprevention.com/

https://www.crisisprevention.com/Blog/May-2017/Unrestrained-Episode-40-Guest-AlGene-Caraulia

http://bohans-family.com/sensei-speaks/Phil%20Koeppel/PK.htm

Call to dig.

Maybe how they 'control' these people. (man sets self on fire, man shoots self)

Notable: POTUS Delivers Remarks at the 2019 US Air Force Academy Graduation Ceremony (12:40pm EDT)

>>6626605

Link for POTUS rema>>6626647

rks later…

https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/

Notable: >>6626747 Trump JR in a MAGA, Punisher Skull [PAIN] shirt (also with "3%" militia logo)

Holy fuck shit this is notable. How did baker from last bread miss this one?

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx904O9FpDs/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

still doubt Q is legit? if yes, then kys asap.

Notable: Q: Floor is yours. CONF_WHITE_WHITE_ marker?

>>6626487

When POTUS was leaving Japan, at the press conference, the translator says (@1:41:00) - "President Trump of the United States, floor is yours." At first I thought the lack of a the before floor was just a lost in translation/translator error but she said it just 2 words prior.

Floor is yours links to this Q post. With stringers.

10, [10-9]

Is this the start of a countdown?

Operational_window(5-6)_FDeltaC25-26

Operational window (May - June (or maybe 5-6 of June D-Day))_Full Declass Coming 25-26?

Secured.

Floor is yours.

Twitter FW_

Twitter [kill_rogue]

CONF_WHITE_WHITE_

Melania + PM Abe's wife White, White.

Notable: Owner of the Hermitage Fund, with Clinton ties, files legal action in US Federal Court.

The puppet masters behind Russiagate

Jonathan Winer & Bill Browder

https://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2019/05/browder-files-a-legal-action-in-us-federal-court-repeats-his-fakery/

Notable: Judicial Watch v State Dept. Transcript of Eric James Boswell

http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/JW-v-State-Boswell-deposition-01242.pdf

Notable: Italy's League junior minister resigns after conviction, Salvini accepts

Italy's League junior minister resigns after conviction, Salvini accepts

ROME (Reuters) - Italy’s League leader and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini accepted on Thursday the resignation of a junior minister convicted for embezzlement, in a move likely to avoid a potential hurdle for the ruling coalition.

Deputy Transport Minister Edoardo Rixi was sentenced to a prison term of three years and five months. The League’s coalition partner, the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, had said Rixi should quit if found guilty.

Shortly after his conviction Rixi announced he wanted to step down and Salvini welcomed his decision.

“I accept his resignation only to protect him and the activity of the government from senseless attacks and polemics”, Salvini said in a statement.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-politics-court/italys-league-junior-minister-resigns-after-conviction-salvini-accepts-idUSKCN1T01DG?il=0

Notable: New DJT Tweet. Russia, Russia, Russia! QPROOF?

New DJT Tweet. Russia, Russia, Russia! QPROOF??

Notable: Israel faces repeat election after parliament dissolves

https://apnews.com/58be8f3f80b94b498339ccbcf867857a

Israel faces repeat 2019 election after parliament dissolves

Notable: >>6626379, >>6626422 Man who lit himself up at the WH has died

he ded

Notable: Planefag Guernsey update

Some 2-reg plane action from this morning, including one from the mothership of Business Aviation Services, Guernsey. Not spoopy at all, no siree Bob…

Notable: NZ: $150 Mil gun buyback and increased spy budget after Christchurch

Spies get budget boost after Christchurch

New Zealand's spies agencies have been given a funding boost in the country's latest budget, as a probe continues into whether they could and should have stopped the man arrested over the Christchurch mosque shootings.

and buried at end………New Zealand's government on Thursday also allocated extra funding for mental health support for the Christchurch community, and has provisionally set aside $150 million for a gun buyback scheme announced as part of a ban after the shooting.

sauce https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/breaking-news/spies-get-budget-boost-after-christchurch/news-story/93f6b107fd6e34222a7262f94b58d4ab

Notable: Netflix calls out Georgia over abortion ban - "rethinking" their investment

They’re lining up so you can see who they are

Notable: DIA Director Ashley warns of Russian & Chinese nuclear efforts

Defense Intelligence Agency chief warns of Russian, Chinese nuclear efforts

Testing, arsenal expanding to compete with U.S.

China conducted more ballistic missile tests than the rest of the world combined in 2018 and is on pace to double its nuclear arsenal over the coming decade, according to the head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, who also underscored new threats posed by Russia’s expanding nuclear capabilities in rare public remarks Wednesday.

China and Russia see themselves in a new nuclear and missile competition with each other and the United States, said DIA Director Lt. Gen. Robert P. Ashley Jr. Moscow in particular has abandoned decades of nuclear reduction efforts in favor a fresh stockpile that’s “likely to grow significantly over the next decade,” he added

While Gen. Ashley said U.S. intelligence assesses that Russia has “probably” even violated a key 1996 treaty banning nuclear detonation tests — an assessment some arms control experts disputed Wednesday — he focused the brunt of his remarks on Russian and Chinese development of so-called “non-strategic” nuclear weapons.

The DIA director at a Hudson Institute event focused on so-called “tactical nukes,” weapons designed to be used in battlefield situations or regional ballistic missile targeting.

“Russia is adding new military capabilities to its existing stockpile of non-strategic nuclear weapons including those employed by ships, aircraft and ground forces,” Gen. Ashley said. “These nuclear warheads include theater and tactical-range systems that Russia relies on to deter and defeat NATO or China in a conflict.”

“We assess Russia to have dozens of these systems already deployed or in development.”

The Trump administration is pulling out of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty prohibiting such weapons, citing what it said was persistent Russian cheating. Mr. Trump has talked of bringing China into a new, more comprehensive tactical nuclear accord, something Beijing has fiercely resisted.

China today has only about 250 warheads, compared with the more than 13,000 split between the United States and Russia. But Gen. Ashley said Wednesday that China’s stockpile “will likely at least double” by 2029. Without supplying figures, he said China has outpaced all other countries — including North Korea — in the pace of its missile testing in recent years.

The DIA director said Russia’s development of the shorter-range 9M729 missile, which can be fired from both fixed and mobile launchers, “appears to be purposely designed to disguise the true nature of their testing activity, as well as the true capacity of the missile.”

More broadly, he said Russia is believed to have as many as 2,000 non-strategic nuclear warheads not covered by the Strategic Arms Reduction (START) Treaty, which is set to expire in 2021 unless both sides agree to renew it.

The United States has engaged in its own nuclear weapons modernization program in recent years, but the U.S. military has just one non-strategic nuclear weapons system — the B61 Gravity Bomb — compared to the far more active Russian and Chinese programs, Gen. Ashley said.

Gen. Ashley also said Russia’s recently accelerated development has been “enhanced” by its approach to nuclear testing. “The United States believes that Russia probably is not adhering to the nuclear testing moratorium in a manner consistent with the zero yield standard,” he said.

The DIA director’s remarks drew quick criticism from the Washington-based Arms Control Association, which said he was referencing language in the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) that prohibits any nuclear test explosions that produce a self-sustaining, supercritical chain reaction.

“Any violation of the CTBT by Russia, which has signed and ratified the agreement, would be a serious matter,” the group said in a statement. During a question and answer session at Hudson, the DIA director qualified his claim by saying only “that Russia had the ‘capability’” for such tests.

The U.S. itself has not ratified the CTBT and critics of the treaty, including National Security Adviser John Bolton, have long claimed it does not adequately define a nuclear test — allowing Moscow and Beijing to violate it.

“But no public evidence has ever been provided to support the claim of illegal Russian testing and Gen. Ashley didn’t provide any Wednesday,” the association said.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/29/robert-p-ashley-defense-intelligence-agency-chief-/

And a quick dig on DIA Director Lt. Gen. Robert P. Ashley Jr. (No Name connection)

https://www.congress.gov/nomination/114th-congress/590/all-info#nominees

https://www.afcea.org/event/sites/default/files/files/Ashley%20Bio.pdf

http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stories/director-of-the-defense-intelligence-agency-who-is-robert-p-ashley-jr-180325?news=860439

Smells like Swamp.

Notable: PapaD twat - My testimony opened the flood gates

My testimony against Clinton errand boy, Alexander Downer, opened the flood gates. Declass is here. The hammer is coming down hard.

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1133998522506702848?s=19

Notable: Puerto Rico - FEMA official under investigation

FEMA Official under investigation

Ahsha Tribble is being investigated for allegedly diverting contracts to Cobra Acquisitions

Washington- The U.S. Attorney's office in San Juan is investigating a FEMA Deputy Regional Administrator that was sent to Puerto Rico after Hurricane María to oversee the reconstruction of the power grid, over allegations that she could have diverted contracts to Cobra Acquisitions Energy, El Nuevo Día confirmed yesterday. The investigation against Ahsha Tribble has focused on whether she improperly favored Cobra's interests, which obtained two contracts - totaling $1.845 billion - with the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) to restore the island's power grid seriously damaged by Hurricane María on September 20, 2017. The investigation against Tribble, who has been FEMA's Deputy Regional Administrator for Region 2 - which includes Puerto Rico - started in the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Tribble's attorney in Puerto Rico, Leo Aldridge, acknowledged that there is an investigation against his client. Tribble, who arrived in Puerto Rico in November 2017 and was in charge of the Energy sector - was separated from her position and placed on administrative leave about 10 days ago because of the investigation. Aldridge said that Tribble “unambiguously states that during the entire time she worked for FEMA in Puerto Rico she acted appropriately, within the provisions of the law, and seeking the prompt recovery of the island.” The lawyer added that she has not been criminally accused and that they trust that if the Federal Attorney's office thoroughly investigates and examines the information that they will provide, she will not be accused. He also explained that Dr. Tribble will appeal her job suspension.

The attorney warned that the contracts were awarded by PREPA, not by FEMA and that ultimately payments to Cobra depended on FEMA. Tribble holds a Ph.D. in Meteorology from the University of Oklahoma. When she was sent to San Juan, she was FEMA's Deputy Administrator in charge of Region 9, based in San Francisco, California. Tribble is remembered for testifying on February 1, 2018 at an Oversight Board's public hearing on PREPA in New York. Back then, Tribble said that Cobra and Whitefish did good work, and that during the emergency PREPA's high level of bureaucracy was a major obstacle. “It does not work…when you have eight layers to be able to approve something.”

At the time, the Whitefish scandal - a two-person company with no experience in repairs like the ones the island needed following the emergency- was under congressional investigation and still fresh in the memory of the public. El Nuevo Día also revealed the high rates included in Cobra's contracts. Cobra, a subsidiary of Mammouth Energy Services of Oklahoma, was originally hired –just like Whitefish- by PREPA former executive director Ricardo Ramos. Cobra's initial contract with PREPA stated that the company intended to develop a facility describes as “camp” with space for up to 550 workers. That first contract was for a maximum of $200,000.

FEMA avoided making comments on Tribble or on the allegations against her. “FEMA cannot comment on staff matters; however, as usual, the agency complies with all requests and investigations directed by the Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security,” said Juan A. Rosado Reynés, FEMA spokesman in Puerto Rico.

Keeping distance

The executive director of the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (FAFAAC), hristian Sobrino Vega, affirmed that the investigation “has nothing to do with actions by the government or by PREPA.” Although federal authorities may have conducted interviews, Sobrino Vega said they understood that “they were related to Mrs. Tribble's actions.” Sobrino Vega said that the investigation deals with an alleged relationship with Cobra and its CEO Keith Ellison, and he stressed that the government is “willing to cooperate with this and any other investigation being carried out.

https://www.elnuevodia.com/english/english/nota/femaofficialunderinvestigation-2495810/

Notable: Joint Task Force GITMO - recently deleted social media accounts?

Notable

Joint Task Force Guantanamo Bay has recently deleted it's social media accounts!!!

https://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil/

Notable: CA assembly voted to extend Medicaid to illegal adults: ~ $3 Bil./year

Free Stuff, Free Stuff, Free Stuff, Free Stuff

but, but its 3 Billion of Free Stuff on the backs of California Taxpayers

——————— California Bizarro World ——————–

(California) Assembly OKs Healthcare for (Illegal) Adult Immigrants

https://fox40.com/2019/05/28/assembly-oks-health-care-for-adult-immigrants/

Notable: Brian Kolfage ("BuildtheWall") live on CBS Morning Show Tomorrow (win! win! win!)

Patriots BUILD the WALL

BrianKolfage

I’ll be LIVE on CBS morning show tomorrow first thing to tell you incredible news!! WIN WIN WIN!

#BuildThatWall #webuiltthewall

https://twitter.com/BrianKolfage/status/1133966109466648577

Notable: Gen'l Dunford on the importance of mil-mil dialog with his Russian counterpart

@thejointstaff

https://twitter.com/thejointstaff/status/1133747503353016321

#GenDunford on the importance of mil-mil dialogue with his #Russian counterpart:

"We have agreed to have an open dialogue to manage crises and miscalculation and to not politicize our relationship."

7:50 AM - 29 May 2019

Notable: ‘Doing my job!’ Top French journalist refuses to reveal sources to security services

‘Doing my job!’ Top French journalist refuses to reveal sources to security services

A Le Monde journalist has refused to reveal her sources during an interrogation by French domestic intelligence over stories she wrote exposing alleged corruption and cronyism in President Emmanuel Macron’s inner circle.

“They asked me many questions on the manner in which I checked my information, which was an indirect way of asking me about my sources,” Ariane Chemin told AFP, adding that she declined to answer the implied question: “I explained that I only did my job as a journalist.”

Chemin was questioned by the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) for 45 minutes on Wednesday in the presence of her lawyer, a week after she became the fifth journalist summoned to appear before the agency in what has become a disturbing new pattern of journalistic intimidation by Macron’s government.

https://www.rt.com/news/460603-journalist-protects-sources-benalla-dgsi/

Notable: Shipfag update

CAP PATTON underway for Oakland. DANNY G in that little parking spot again.

Notable: Download Dissenter browser, built by Gab, instead of Google

Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

Back in January, Google announced a proposed change to Chrome’s extensions system, called Manifest V3, that would stop current ad blockers from working efficiently. In a response to the overwhelming negative feedback, Google is standing firm on Chrome’s ad blocking changes, sharing that current ad blocking capabilities will be restricted to enterprise users.

Manifest V3 comprises a major change to Chrome’s extensions system, including a revamp to the permissions system and a fundamental change to the way ad blockers operate. In particular, modern ad blockers, like uBlock Origin and Ghostery, use Chrome’s webRequest API to block ads before they’re even downloaded.

With the Manifest V3 proposal, Google deprecates the webRequest API’s ability to block a particular request before it’s loaded. As you would expect, power users and extension developers alike criticized Google’s proposal for limiting the user’s ability to browse the web as they see fit.

https://9to5google.com/2019/05/29/chrome-ad-blocking-enterprise-manifest-v3/

Download Dissenter browser, built by Gab

The Dissenter web browser is built for The People, not advertisers. Block Big Tech ads and trackers by default. Discover a comment section on every URL online. Welcome to the free speech internet.

https://dissenter.com/

All other browsers worship and serve the beast with your browsing information.

Notable: Israel goes back to election as Netanyahu fails to form coalition

Bibi in Big Trouble as New Election Looms

ISRAEL GOES BACK TO ELECTIONS AS NETANYAHU FAILS TO FORM COALITION

Exactly one month after the 21st Knesset were sworn in, a majority of the Knesset voted late Wednesday to disperse themselves and initiate an unprecedented repeat election on September 17.

BY GIL HOFFMAN, LAHAV HARKOV

Exactly one month after the 21st Knesset was sworn in, a majority of the Knesset voted late Wednesday night to disperse and initiate an unprecedented repeat election on September 17.

It was the first time in Israeli history that a candidate for prime minister failed to form a coalition after being given the task by the president after an election.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Likud faction ahead of the vote that he had not succeeded in reaching a compromise with Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman on the controversial haredi (ultra-Orthodox) conscription bill, and that he had also tried unsuccessfully to woo MKs from the opposition to join his government.

“The State of Israel is going to elections because of the Likud’s refusal to accept our proposal,” Liberman said as he entered the Knesset plenum. “This is a complete surrender of the Likud to the ultra-Orthodox. We will not be partners in a government of Jewish law.”

Tourism Minister Yariv Levin, head of the Likud’s negotiating team, told reporters “it’s over,” as he arrived at the Likud meeting after his last negotiation had failed.

Environmental Protection Minister Ze’ev Elkin said that there was no choice but to hold new elections, due to Liberman’s intransigence and refusal to accept “1,000 compromises” that had been offered throughout the last week.

The vote – taken just after the midnight deadline by which Netanyahu needed to tell President Reuven Rivlin whether he had been able to form a governing coalition – was 74 to 45 in favor of dispersing.

Opposition MKs shouted “shame, shame, shame” in unison ahead of the vote.

The Likud initiated the bill to dissolve the Knesset rather than give Rivlin a chance to appoint someone other than Netanyahu to form a government.

In presenting the bill to the Knesset, Likud MK Miki Zohar said that he is “disappointed by the situation, but we were forced into it.” He admitted that the decision “would not be remembered positively in our history.”

https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Elections-set-for-Sept-17-after-coalition-talks-fail-591044

Notable: Anon: "Ship is not the McCain" (proof)

>>6624861

Proof it’s not the McCain

Notable: Prosecutors say a network of charter schools stole $50 million from California

@APWestRegion

https://twitter.com/APWestRegion/status/1133939105233035267

Prosecutors say a network of charter schools stole $50 million from California, enrolling about 40,000 students without providing them with any services.

8:32 PM - 29 May 2019

Notable: >>6624861, >>6624819 USS McCain: is it or isn't it?

McCain boat: see the flag, it’s a kilo flag.

Meaning: “I wish to communicate with you”

Notable: Seven South Korean tourists killed, 19 missing after Hungarian boat capsizes on Danube

Seven South Korean tourists killed, 19 missing after Hungarian boat capsizes on Danube

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - At least seven people were killed and nearly 20 were missing after a pleasure boat carrying South Korean tourists capsized on the flooding Danube in the Hungarian capital on Wednesday, police and ambulance officials said.

The boat reportedly collided with another tourist vessel near the Hungarian parliament building, before turning over on the river, which has been flooding, with very strong currents, while a rainstorm enveloped Budapest.

In Seoul, the foreign ministry said the vessel sank with 33 South Korean tourists and a crew of two Hungarians aboard, adding that seven of the tourists were rescued but seven died, and 19 were missing.

An emergency rescue team is among the 18 officials South Korea plans to send to Budapest, the ministry said in a statement, and it will offer counseling to victims’ families.

A Hungarian ambulance spokesman told state television that 14 people were pulled from the water. Seven have died, with the rest suffering from hypothermia but stable.

A massive rescue effort deployed boats, divers, spotlights, and radar scanning to scour the river for several kilometers downstream from the accident site.

Journalists at the scene said they saw children’s ambulances on the riverbank, showing that children were also aboard.

But the hours that have passed since the accident, soon after 9 p.m. (1900 GMT), make it less likely for new survivors to be found in the central Budapest area, as strong currents have carried people far downstream, emergency rescue chiefs told state media.

The National Ambulance Service mounted searches along a stretch of the river downstream from Budapest and was on alert along a section further south in Hungary, where all boat traffic has been halted.

Television images showed the bank of the Danube closed off by police on the Pest side, across from the World Heritage site of Buda Castle.

The Danube’s flooding and currents made rescue efforts extremely difficult, a rescue diver told the state broadcaster, with water temperatures ranging between 10 and 12 degrees Celsius (50 and 54 degrees F).

The boat, the Mermaid, was a 27-m (89-ft) double-decker river cruise boat with a 150-horsepower engine and could hold up to 60 people, its owner, Panorama Deck Ltd., told state media.

“We are mobilizing every resource we have to protect human lives,” it said, adding that the Mermaid had been in its fleet since 2003, with regular maintenance.

Boat registry Hajoregiszter.hu showed the ship, originally built in the Soviet Union in 1949, received a Hungarian-made new engine in the 1980s.

Neither the registry nor the operator could be immediately reached for comment on the boat’s age.

A shipping expert told state television it was likely the pleasure boat had collided with a very large vessel that had sunk it very quickly.

The hull was found on the riverbed just a few hundred meters from its usual mooring point.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hungary-accident-boat/seven-south-korean-tourists-killed-19-missing-after-hungarian-boat-capsizes-on-danube-idUSKCN1SZ2RB?il=0

Notable: Chaffetz tweets re the IG failing to prosecute the FBI DAD

Jason Chaffetz

‏Verified account @jasoninthehouse

Justice denied….again. Inspector General made a criminal referral and DOJ declined to prosecute. #NOjustice #justicedenied

https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2019/f190529.pdf …

https://twitter.com/jasoninthehouse/status/1133949696425095170

Notable: , >>6624769, >>6625300 "Follow the water, follow the pen": refs to France's Marine Le Pen?

>>6624728

>>6624649

A thought:

All of Q's posts with "follow the pen"….could another connection be "follow Le Pen" as in France's Marine Le Pen?

https://www.theepochtimes.com/le-pen-beats-macron-in-france-as-nationalists-gain-in-eu-vote_2937957.html

Notable: US Government seeks NGO help for removing Iran from Syria

U.S. Government Seeks NGO Help For Removing Iran From Syria

The U.S.Department of State is offering a grant of $75,000,000 to non-government-organizations to help it to further meddle in Syria.

The grant SFOP0005916 - Supporting Local Governance and Civil Society in Syria will go to "Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education"

The task description is quite interesting as the NGOs which will eventually get the grant will have to commit to counter one of Syria's military allies:

The purpose of this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) is to advance the following U.S. Government policy objectives in Syria:

Ensure the enduring defeat of ISIS and counter violent extremism, including other extremist groups in Syria;

Achieve a political solution to the Syrian conflict under the auspices of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2254; and,

End the presence of Iranian forces and proxies in Syria.

The Department of State's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of Assistance Coordination (NEA/AC) aims to advance these policy objectives by supporting the following assistance objectives:

Strengthen responsive and credible governance and civil society entities to capably serve and represent communities liberated from ISIS.

Advance a political solution to the Syrian conflict under the auspices of United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2254; and,

Counter extremism and disinformation perpetuated by Iranian forces, designated terrorist organizations, and other malign actors through support for local governance actors and civil society organizations.

The operational field for the grant is not only the Syrian northeast which U.S. troops currently occupy, but also the al-Qaeda infested Idleb governorate as well as all government controlled areas.

The related Funding Opportunity Description (available through the above link) does not explain what an NGO could do to advance the highlighted U.S. government goals.

Work on the three year project is supposed to start on January 1 2020. It must be applied for by August 2 2019.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2019/05/us-government-seeks-ngo-help-for-removing-iran-from-syria.html.

Notable: UK Army's warning about 'patriots' and 'right-wing' makes the news

Patriotism is a 'red-flag for racism': Army officers are warned soldiers calling themselves 'patriots' or who make 'inaccurate generalisations about the Left' could be right-wing extremists in their ranks

A guide to help high-ranking British officers spot right-wing extremists in their ranks has been leaked - and the signs include people calling themselves 'patriots' and making 'inaccurate generalisations about the Left'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7082855/British-army-officers-told-soldiers-calling-patriots-extremists.html

Notable: , >>6624429 DC theater cancels Strozk/Page play amid security threats

@washingtonpost

Washington theater cancels conservative filmmaker’s play amid security threats

8:20 PM - 29 May 2019

Notable: Syria update

SYRIA UPDATE

Turkey Says Nearly 330,000 Syrians Returned Home

Some 8 million Syrians left their country after the outbreak of the war in 2011, including about 3.6 million to Turkey.

https://syrianobserver.com/EN/news/50724/turkey-says-nearly-330000-syrians-returned-home.html

Al-Moallem: Economic blockade on Syria is a form of terrorism

“The West wants this region, which is rich in oil and natural resources, to be a big consumer market for the western productions and wants the Israeli entity to dominate this region… so, they wanted the war in Syria to continue and prevent countries from taking part in the reconstruction process,” al-Moallem added.

https://sana.sy/en/?p=166491

Military Situation In Syria On May 29, 2019 (Map Update)

A brief overview of the recent development in Syria:

An IED explosion hit a Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) vehicle in Al-Zer killing at least one person;

An IED explosion hit the city of Qamishli. No casualties were reported;

Multiple artillery and air strikes in southwestern Aleppo were reported by pro-militant sources;

The situation near Kafr Nabudah remains relatively calm;

Russian and Syrian airctaft continue pounding militant infrastructure in northern Hama and southern Idlib;

An IED explosion hit al-Bab. No casualties were reported.

https://southfront.org/military-situation-in-syria-on-may-29-2019-map-update/

Damascus, Moscow call upon international community to exert pressure on Washington to pull out its troops from Syria

In a joint statement the Syrian and Russian Coordination Committees on the Return of Displaced Syrians called upon the “International community, the UN agencies and the international humanitarian organizations to adopt a principled stance to influence the US in order to solve the issue of withdrawing its occupational forces from Syria soonest possible.”

The two committees reaffirmed that the “US forces which are occupying lands in Syria had entered Syria in an illegitimate way and their presence hinder the exerted efforts for restoring normal life to the country and they constitute an obstacle which hinder stability in the southeast of Syria and which causes catastrophic situations for the residents of al-Rukban Camp who are forcibly held at the camp by terrorist groups controlled by the US.”

https://sana.sy/en/?p=166476

New Video Reveals Militants’ Heavy Losses In Kafr Nabudah Battle

On May 28, the Abkhazian Network News Agency (ANNA) released a new video revealing militants’ heavy losses in the battle of Kafr Nabudah last week.

The video shows dozens of airstrikes and artillery strikes on the militants’ positions and equipment inside the town and in its outskirt.

https://youtu.be/9h-giE6P7do

Army destroys Jabhat al-Nusra vehicles and dens in Idleb southern countryside

Units of the Syrian Arab Army destroyed vehicles and dens of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists in Kafr Sajna town and al-Bara village in Idle southern countryside in retaliation to their continued breaches of the de-escalation zone agreement.

https://sana.sy/en/?p=166461

Syrian, Russian Air Forces Stepped Up Aerial Operations Over Greater Idlib In Last 48 Hours

https://youtu.be/o5CRtax3BC0

https://youtu.be/9XUhcjmOlvg

https://youtu.be/K9hcKeoQF4c

https://youtu.be/yTQmDsXsfLg

https://youtu.be/q0xiZkadGyA

https://youtu.be/IXF3mqkZS5o

https://southfront.org/syrian-russian-air-forces-stepped-up-aerial-operations-over-greater-idlib-in-last-48-hours-videos/

Notable: Topkek: Pepe and Daisy Hogg colouring book

Ok…which one of you faggots did this?

Notable: Big Mike tweets mentioning 'alchemy'. Coded?

@MichelleObama

There’s something unexplainable that happens on @SesameStreet, some unique alchemy of aspiration and goodness that just can’t be replicated. That’s why I couldn’t be more honored to celebrate 50 years of Sesame Street tonight.

Join me by sharing a memory with #Sesame50.

7:39 PM - 29 May 2019

Notable: The DAD in question may be John Giacalone, re pb >>6623509

The DAD in question may be John Giacalone, who basically got the fuck outta dodge right before shit went supernova hot…in February 2016. Conveniently when McCabe became Deputy Director and Scalia got bumped.

https://www.executivegov.com/2015/03/profile-john-giacalone-executive-assistant-director-of-fbis-national-security-branch/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-giacalone-2a322ab9

Notable: 'Checkmate' connection graphic

Another checkmate?

Notable: Photos of the Japan trip from the WH

@WhiteHouse

President Trump and the First Lady's historic trip to Japan—in photos! 🇺🇸 🇯🇵 http://45.wh.gov/VFHvsh

7:43 PM - 29 May 2019

Notable: Disney CEO: It will be 'difficult' to film in GA if abortion law takes effect

Disney CEO says it will be 'difficult' to film in Georgia if abortion law takes effect

ANAHEIM, Calif. (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co Chief Executive Bob Iger told Reuters on Wednesday it would be “very difficult” for the media company to keep filming in Georgia if a new abortion law takes effect because many people will not want to work in the U.S. state.

Disney has filmed blockbuster movies in Georgia such as “Black Panther” and “Avengers: Endgame,” and it would be a blow to the state’s efforts to create production jobs if the entertainment giant stopped filming there.

Georgia’s Republican governor signed into law on May 7 a ban on abortion after a doctor can detect a fetal heartbeat - about six weeks into a pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant. The law is due to take effect on Jan. 1, if it survives court challenges.

Asked if Disney would keep filming in Georgia, Iger said it would be “very difficult to do so” if the abortion law is implemented.

“I rather doubt we will,” Iger said in an interview ahead of the dedication for a new “Star Wars” section at Disneyland. “I think many people who work for us will not want to work there, and we will have to heed their wishes in that regard. Right now we are watching it very carefully.”

If the law takes effect, “I don’t see how it’s practical for us to continue to shoot there,” he added.

Georgia is one of eight states to pass anti-abortion legislation this year for the purpose of inducing the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark case that established a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy.

The state offers a tax credit that has lured many film and TV productions. The industry is responsible for more than 92,000 jobs in Georgia, according to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), and some 455 productions were shot in Georgia in 2018, according to the state.

Some actors and producers have already said they will no longer work in Georgia because of the abortion law, but many of the large production companies have remained publicly silent on the abortion law.

On Tuesday, Netflix Inc said the streaming service would “rethink” its film and television production investment in Georgia if the law goes into effect.

In the meantime, Netflix will continue production there for now and work with groups that are fighting the law in U.S. courts.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-abortion-walt-disney-exclusive/exclusive-disney-ceo-says-it-will-be-difficult-to-film-in-georgia-if-abortion-law-takes-effect-idUSKCN1T003X?il=0

Notable: , >>6623725 USMC tweet connects to Nate Cain and Q Post

>>6623650

Last bread Marines connection.

Notable: OIG Report: Findings of Misconduct by an FBI Deputy Assistant Director

>>6623493

yes ,..

https://www.oversight.gov/node/18950

Notable: Boatfag Update

CAP CAPRICORN (operator XT Management based in Tel Aviv unlike the other "CAP" vessels being tracked in the same livery) is still on her way from Long Beach to Auckland, New Zealand.

Notable: , >>6623329, >>6623799 CrowdStrike retraction of Ukranian hack by Russia

>>6623131 LB

CrowdStrike retraction of Ukranian hack by Russia - note it appears to be the same malware as DNC?

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/danger-close-fancy-bear-tracking-ukrainian-field-artillery-units/

Notable: Schiff: ‘We Look Forward to Mueller’s Testimony Before Congress

Adam Schiff: ‘We Look Forward to Mueller’s Testimony Before Congress

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, seemingly ignored special counsel Robert Mueller’s statement Wednesday ruling out any testimony before Congress, saying he and other congressional investigators nonetheless “look forward” to him testifying. “We look forward to Mueller’s testimony before Congress,” Schiff began in a statement. “While I understand his reluctance to answer hypotheticals or deviate from the carefully worded conclusions he drew on his charging decisions, there are, nevertheless, a great many questions he can answer that go beyond the report, including any counterintelligence issues and classified matters that were not addressed in his findings.”

In his first public remarks about his two-year Russia investigation, Mueller said the probe has been closed and he is leaving his role and returning to civilian life. Speaking at the Justice Department, Mueller reiterated his report’s findings — that there was no evidence to indicate collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign before the 2016 election, and there were several “episodes” in which President Donald Trump may have obstructed justice with attempts to disrupt the investigation. The report did not clear him on that issue, though Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined the president did not commit. obstruction of justice. Mueller stated he does not plan on speaking further about the investigation, precluding any testimony in Congress. “I hope and expect that this will be the only time I will speak to you about this matter,” Mueller said. “The report is my testimony.” “I would not provide information beyond that which is already public,” he added.

According to Schiff, Mueller’s statement was a “direct rebuke” of Barr’s handling of the special counsel’s report and left open the possibility that President Trump may have committed a crime. “Finally, in a direct rebuke of Attorney General William Barr—who deliberately and repeatedly misled the American people—Mueller today confirmed that he was unable to consider criminal charges of obstruction of justice against the President specifically because of Department of Justice policy prohibiting the indictment of a sitting president,” the California Democrat said. “Mueller reiterated that ‘if we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.’ Instead, he made clear that, because of the Department’s own policy, it is left it to Congress—not the Attorney General—to evaluate and further investigate the president’s misconduct.”

Though Schiff is still adamant about Mueller’s testifying, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) appears to have softened on the idea — even as he and the special counsel continue to negotiate about a possible testimony. When asked in a press conference Wednesday if he would issue a subpoena for Mueller to appear before his panel, Nadler replied: “Mr. Mueller told us a lot of what we needed to hear today.” Earlier this month, talks between Nadler and Mueller fell through for the special counsel to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on May 15th.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/29/adam-schiff-we-look-forward-to-muellers-testimony-before-congress/

Notable: Anon's digging on the 'S'.

[S] is really fuckin weird in this tweet

We have the server[S]

Diggin for conformations

Notable: Report: Trump wanted warship named for John McCain "out of sight" in Japan.

Report: Trump wanted warship named for John McCain "out of sight" in Japan

https://www.axios.com/trump-warship-named-john-mccain-japan-4194ab34-2fa6-467c-95b9-45772bd23eb7.html

Notable: DJT Tweet: 11 pointer?

Patriot Anons

Did POTUS just confirm a Checkmate

Notable: FLOTUS Tweet: "Thank you Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako…"

@FLOTUS

Thank you Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako for hosting us in the Imperial Palace. We enjoyed meeting so many wonderful people!

Notable: Bank CEO indicted for taking bribes in connection with loans guaranteed by the SBA.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Bank CEO Arrested For Taking Bribes In Connection With Loans Guaranteed By The Small Business Administration

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bank-ceo-arrested-taking-bribes-connection-loans-guaranteed-small-business

Notable: DJT Tweet: DJT was not informed re: USS John S. McCain.

DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1133900762709463040

Notable: NZ removes any reference to Jesus from parliamentary prayer!

Notables/News

New Zealand removes any reference to Jesus from parliamentary prayer!

In the wake of the Christchurch mosque attack, we come to find out that New Zealand has removed references to Jesus from the parliamentary prayer, sparking outrage among the country’s Christian population.

Speaker of the House, Trevor Mallard, made the decision to drop references to Jesus in order to make the prayer “more inclusive” for all parliamentarians.

The Guardian reported: A reference to “almighty god” remains, but it is not a specific reference to a Christian god.

The protesters want Jesus’s name reinstated, and held signs reading “Dishonourable Judas Mallard”.

Around 1,000 people protested on the steps of parliament house in Wellington, arguing that New Zealand was a Christian nation and Mallard had no authority to axe Jesus’s name.

“He needs a good kick in his pants, and he needs to actually be removed because this is a Christian nation”, protester Rieki Teutscher told Radio NZ. “We don’t share his atheism.”

Another protester, Carmel Morgan, said Mallard should have consulted with New Zealanders or announced a referendum before changing the prayer.

“This is a land of democracy, this is a land of freedom, you know, we want to be a first world country… he took that choice away from us.”

Politicians such as Jacinda Ardern and Winston Peters have said it would have been judicious for the speaker to have consulted more widely before actioning the changes.

“Well the decision as to what should be changed should be made by parliamentarians and not the speaker – that’s our position, I don’t mind telling you publicly”, deputy prime minister Winston Peters told RNZ.

“If you’re going to make a change let’s have parliament decide – not one person.”

Mallard said he had consulted with parliamentarians and the majority had indicated they were in favour of a secular prayer.

The brethren in NZ need anon prayers more than ever it seems!

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/03/new-zealand-removes-any-reference-to-jesus-from-parliamentary-prayer/

Notable: Swarm of SpaceX satellites crowd the night sky.

Notes/News

SpaceX satellites pose new headache for astronomers

It looked like a scene from a sci-fi blockbuster: an astronomer in the Netherlands captured footage of a train of brightly-lit SpaceX satellites ascending through the night sky this weekend, stunning space enthusiasts across the globe.

But the sight has also provoked an outcry among astronomers who say the constellation, which so far consists of 60 broadband-beaming satellites but could one day grow to as many as 12,000, may threaten our view of the cosmos and deal a blow to scientific discovery.

The launch was tracked around the world and it soon became clear that the satellites were visible to the naked eye: a new headache for researchers who already have to find workarounds to deal with objects cluttering their images of deep space.

"People were making extrapolations that if many of the satellites in these new mega-constellations had that kind of steady brightness, then in 20 years or less, for a good part the night anywhere in the world, the human eye would see more satellites than stars," Bill Keel, an astronomer at the University of Alabama, told AFP.

The satellites' brightness has since diminished as their orientation has stabilized and they have continued their ascent to their final orbit at an altitude of 550 kilometers (340 miles).

But that has not entirely allayed the concerns of scientists, who are worried about what happens next.

Elon Musk's SpaceX is just one of a several companies looking to enter the fledgling space internet sector.

To put that into context, there are currently 2,100 active satellites orbiting our planet, according to the Satellite Industry Association.

If another 12,000 are added by SpaceX alone, "it will be hundreds above the horizon at any given time," Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics told AFP, adding that the problem would be exacerbated at certain times of the year and certain points in the night.

https://phys.org/news/2019-05-spacex-satellites-pose-headache-astronomers.html

Notable: DJT Tweet: Hannity & Mark Levin congratulations. Hannity tonight 9PM EST.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1133897476497448960

Notable: Fetal heartbeat bill looks to pass in Louisiana.

Louisiana Passes Fetal Heartbeat Abortion Bill, Dem Governor Says He’ll Sign

Louisiana passed a new abortion bill on May 29 that prohibits abortion once there is a detectable fetal heartbeat, which can occur as early as six weeks into pregnancy.

The move comes after several other U.S. states enacted similar measures.

The bill passed the House of Representatives 79-23. Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards has indicated that he would break with his party sign it into law if it reached his desk.

“I know there are many who feel just as strongly as I do on abortion and disagree with me—and I respect their opinions,” Edwards said in a statement after the bill’s passage.

“As I prepare to sign this bill, I call on the overwhelming bipartisan majority of legislators who voted for it to join me in continuing to build a better Louisiana that cares for the least among us and provides more opportunity for everyone.”

Edwards was elected governor in 2015 and has described himself as a “pro-life candidate.”

According to the bill’s text (pdf), the prohibition will only into effect hold only if the law in neighboring Mississippi is upheld by a federal appeals court. A federal judge temporarily blocked that Mississippi law on May 24.

The Louisiana bill requires that prior to an abortion, an ultrasound is performed in order to determine whether a fetal heartbeat is present.

The bill reads: “It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly perform an abortion with the specific intent of causing or abetting the termination of the life of an unborn human being when a fetal heartbeat has been detected.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/louisiana-passes-fetal-heartbeat-abortion-bill-dem-governor-says-hell-sign_2943088.html

Notable: Satanic Temple to challenge ruling on fetal remains.

https://apple.news/AAoFMhdpWQdm45-IG19F_Ww

Notable: Google's underbelly of second class sweat shop workers.

Google Accused Of Running 'White-Collar Sweatshop' To Power 'AI' Assistant

Google Assistant - the company's 'AI' equivalent to Siri or Alexa - can make life easier in all sorts of ways, including setting reminders, controlling smart home devices, booking rental cars and more. And the service - which Google says is on at least a billion devices, is powered by a giant apparatus of underpaid, overworked human subcontractors who manage the entire operation, according to The Guardian's Julia Wong. This 'army' of contractors often work massive amounts of overtime for free in the hopes of becoming a full-time Google employee with all the perks and benefits that come with it.

"It’s smoke and mirrors if anything," said one current Google employee - who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Artificial intelligence is not that artificial; it’s human beings that are doing the work." Current and former employees noted Google's reliance on around 100,000 temporary workers, vendors and contractors (known internally as TVCs), who produce a large amount of the company's work. Those who collect or create data for much of its technology are not directly employed by Google; from the drivers who roam around the earth for Google Maps, or YouTube's content moderators who train the company's filters to catch banned content, to people who endlessly flip pages of physical books to scan into the Google Books libraries. This has created two tiers of workers at Google; highly compensated, full-time employees, vs. low-wage contract workers who are found using staffing firms. The employees said this dichotomy is "corrosive" , "highly problematic" and "permissive of exploitation." "It’s like a white-collar sweatshop," said one Google employee. "If it’s not illegal, it’s definitely exploitative. It’s to the point where I don’t use the Google Assistant, because I know how it’s made, and I can’t support it."

On Tuesday, the New York Times noted that Google's use of underpaid contractors extends far beyond just the Google Assistant team. An 'army' of cunning linguists are teaching their replacements. Much of what is driving modern advancements in computing and user experiences involves the study of language. As the Guardian notes, it's taken decades to go from monotonously programming a clunky VCR - to simply telling your digital assistant what you want, when you want it. In short, Silicon Valley has gone to great lengths to understand natural human speech, in all its variations. And all of this has been developed using a combination of humans feeding massive data sets into machine learning systems.

In order to feed the systems, Pygmalion was created in 2014. The brainchild of longitme Google executive Linne Ha, the division was tasked with creating linguistic data sets required for Google's neural networks to adapt to dozens of languages. Programming is a "painstaking" and labor-intensive process, requiring the careful creation of "handcrafted" data sets in order for the digital systems to function properly. As originally planned, Google employs just a handful of full-time employees in Pygmalion - while outsourcing an "army" of subcontracted linguists around the world, according to documents reviewed by The Guardian. At present, there are 40-50 full time Googlers and around 200 temporary workers contracted through global staffing firms such as Adecco. The workers include associate linguists who annotate data sets, and project managers who oversee that work. "Imagine going from producing PhD level research and pushing forward the state of knowledge in the world to going to an annotation type job, where all you’re doing all day is annotating data; it’s very click, click, click," said one former Pygmalion project manager. "Everyone was trying to prove themselves because everyone was trying to work for Google. The competitive edge that happened among colleagues as TVCs was severe."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-29/google-accused-running-white-collar-sweatshop-power-ai-assistant

Notable: >>6622816 Boatfag updates.

Boatfag update: Long Beach remains busy. EVER LUCKY made it in from Taipei, Taiwan today and is moored at the Evergreen terminal. EVER LUCENT is at Pier 400 and listed to be going for an ETA of the 31st at Oakland. DANNY G in Alamitos Bay. A "US GOVT VESSEL" (possibly a DDG) is at the Seal Beach Weapons Station. OOCL TOKYO and OOCL BEIJING are with each other while nearby is the bulk carrier BELO HORIZONTE that arrived a few days ago all the way from South Africa.

Notable: Brits claim they told Flynn about Steele's lack of credibility in Jan. 2017.

Not buying it. Unnamed source close to Flynn says he receive a secret memo from the Brits saying Steele was garbage. Sources say Flynn denies any knowledge of the memo.

Someone's lying and it ain't Flynn.

https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1133873092999229440

Notable: BO getting payday speech in Colombia.

>>6622381

>>>6621788 Cuba running drugs for Colombian terror group FARC: see Obama speech notable.

Obama Bags $600,000 Payday For Single Speech In Colombia

Former President Barack Obama was paid nearly $600,000 to speak at a Tuesday marketing conference in Bogota, Colombia, according to Colombian news outlet El Tiempo. For those keeping track, that's $100,000 more than Bill Clinton made for a single speech in Moscow (during a 2010 trip where he hung out with Vladimir Putin at his house).

According to the report, Obama earned "2 billion Colombian pesos," or $591,000 USD speaking at the EXMA conference, held Monday and Tuesday. Conference attendees could also snap a photo with the former president for just 11 million Colombian pesos, or around $3,200.

And according to the Bogotá Post - Obama's talk, "A conversation with President Barack Obama," was focused on influential growth strategies. "It will be a talk about business that is based on the positive influence Obama puts out. We have to take advantage of this to build de country, entrepreneurship and innovation," said the organizers, who added that Obama will "set the condition that he won't talk about current politics."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-29/obama-bags-600000-payday-single-speech-colombia

Notable: DJT Tweet: "How do you impeach a Republican President for a crime that was committed by the Democrats? WITCH HUNT!"

New DJT

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1133893813611782144